Women's Golf Coaching Staff

• HEAD COACH

  ADAM GARy

   

  

•  Gary will enter his seventh season as the WKU Lady Topper Golf coach in 2020-21, a position he assumed on June 12, 2014.
  The Lady Toppers have made a steady climb under Gary's leadership. His six seasons at the helm represent the best team stroke averages in the Lady Topper record books, improving every year under his tutelage to a 296.67 mark in 2019-20, prior to the early ending of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
  WKU entered the Golfstat Top 100 for the first time as a team in 2018-19, and have maintained a consistent spot within the Top 100 since then.
  
  His seven titles are tied for the most for a Lady Topper coach, and he's the only coach in program history to win a tournament in each of his/her first five seasons in charge. His latest win was in the fall of 2019 at the Little Rock Golf Classic.
  
  A major off-course highlight of the season came with the opening and dedication of the Phillip Hatchett Golf Facility on February 21, 2020. More information on the facility can be found here.
• The 2019-20 Lady Toppers were well on their way to a competitive and successful spring prior to the cancelation of spring sports in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several team and individual rounds in the fall were etched in the record book and WKU was gearing up to host its fourth straight Spring Break Shootout when it got word of the cancelation.
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  In 2019-20, WKU finished in the top five as a team at six of the seven tournaments the Lady Toppers competed in. Three Lady Tops found their way in to the program's season stroke average top 10 list including Megan Clarke, Mary Joiner and Sarah Arnold. With the blanket year of eligibility, the record-breaking Joiner decided to return to The Hill for a fifth and final season.
  
  Under Gary's guidance, golfer Joiner has rewritten the Lady Topper record book in her four completed years. Her two individual titles in 2018-19 gave her six for her career, which is a Conference USA and WKU record. Joiner also broke her own record for single-season individual stroke average in 2018-19 at 73.4.
  
  Joiner was named a third-team All-C-USA selection, becoming the third Lady Topper to receive multiple all-conference selections.
  
  Megan Clarke also won her first individual title in 2018-19, making it the first time in program history that two different golfers have won events in the same season. The Lady Toppers had 21 top-25 individual performances across the season, including eight top-10s, five top-5s and three victories. They also had four top-4 team results.
   
  In 2017-18, golfer Georgina Blackman became the first four-time all-conference selection in program history and finished fourth at the 2018 Conference USA Championship – the best conference tourney finish by a Lady Topper in 20 years.
  
  Joiner joined Blackman on the all-conference list as a first-team pick in 2017-18, marking the third time in four seasons that WKU has had multiple all-league selections. Joiner also gives the Lady Toppers three different first-team performers in as many years.
  
  The Lady Toppers finished the 2017-18 season with seven top-five team performances in 11 events, including six straight – and the first five of the spring – leading into the C-USA Championship. They had 29 top-20 finishes, as well as 17 top-10s.
  
  Their 2015-16 campaign was one of the best in school history, with seven top-five finishes as a team and a championship at the Morehead State Citrus Challenge Invitational. The Lady Toppers closed the 2015-16 campaign by tying for fourth in the 2016 C-USA Championship, their best finish in a conference tournament since 1997. 
  
  A professional golfer since 2003 on both the US Pro Golf Tour (2003-2005) and the Egolf Professional Tour (2006-2009), Gary's familiarity with the professional game allows him a unique access to a wide range of touring professionals, coaches and professional instructors.
  
  Since 2012, Gary has maintained the Adam Gary Golf Academy, where he instructs amateur and professional golfers. Gary has served as the Director of Golf at Kenny Perry's Country Creek golf course in Franklin, Ky, and he currently gives instruction at Indian Hills Country Club in Bowling Green. Gary, a Class A PGA member, holds TPI Level 1, US Kids Golf and SeeMore Putter Institute certifications as an instructor. He is also a certified club fitter from the game's top club manufacturers, Ping and Titleist.
  
  As a player, Gary received instruction from PGA Teachers of the Year Jim Suttie and Todd Anderson. Gary graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2003 with his degree in Business Management.
  
  As a collegian, Gary was a three-year captain at FGCU, and winner of the AASU Savannah South Bridge Collegiate, Doral Resort Intercollegiate, and Coca Cola Intercollegiate.
  
  He earned All-State honors and was an American Junior Golf Association All-American as a high school product out of Greenwood High, where he was a six-year letterman. Gary was also the Kentucky Junior Amateur Champion in 1997.
  
  Gary is married to the former Ashlee Conway, of Central City. The couple has three children, Davis and twins Lane and Brooks.