Chad Green will begin his seventh season at the helm of the men's golf program at Missouri S&T in the 2023-24 season.
Green, who became the Miner head coach when the program was reinstated in 2017, guided the Miners to their best season in school history during the 2022-23 season as he led the Miners to a tie for eighth place at the NCAA Division II Championships. The Miners fell short of making match play in a three-team playoff, but the Miners' season was an outstanding one as the squad finished third or better in every tournament they played in prior to nationals.
Those top three-finishes included four tournament wins and second place finishes at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament in stroke play and at the NCAA Division II Central/Midwest Regional. Carl Miltun, the GLVC medalist for the second time in his career, earned first-team All-GLVC for the third time in his career and PING All-Midwest Region honors for the second time, while teammate Gustav Liljedahl was also a first-team All-GLVC selection who would go on to finish sixth individually at the national tournament.
In the 2021-22 season, the Miners recorded two first place finishes, recording the first multi-win season since the program returned. S&T won the Northwestern Oklahoma State Ranger Invite to end the fall season and also won the Lindenwood Invitational. The Miners recorded four top five finishes during the season and placed fifth at the GLVC Championships, narrowly missing out on advancing to match play for the second year in a row. Miltun finished third overall and garnered First Team All-GLVC honors for the second time in his career.
During the 2020-21 season, S&T recorded five top-five finishes during the season, taking home a season-best second at he Arkansas Monticello Dancing Rabbit Intercollegiate. Miltun earned individual medalist honors at the GLVC Championship and was named Freshman of the Year as the Miners advanced to match play for the first time since the program was reinstated with a fourth place finish in match play.
In his first six seasons at S&T, Green has led the team to 30 top-five finishes and seven tournament championships. The team was recognized as a Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) All-Academic Team during the 2018-19 season.
Prior to becoming the Miners' head coach, Green -- who also served as the head coach for the S&T's women's golf program in the 2020-21 season -- spent six seasons as the head coach of the successful program at Central College in Iowa.
Green led Central to four NCAA Division III Tournament appearances in his six years at the school as well as four Iowa Conference championships. The Dutch recorded a 12th place finish at the 2013 national tournament and during his tenure at Central, Green has been named as the Iowa Conference’s “Coach of the Year” on four occasions.
A native of St. Louis, Green previous served as the head women’s golf coach and assistant men’s coach at Maryville University for two seasons; the second season at Maryville was that school’s first as a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference. During that time, he was also the director of instruction at the Country Club of Sugar Creek in High Ridge, Mo.
Green was also an assistant golf professional at the Cedar Rapids Country Club and Forest Highlands Golf Club in Flagstaff, Ariz., and while at Forest Highlands, he competed on the Pepsi Golf Tour.
“It’s exciting to start a program from scratch, which is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Green said when he was named as the head coach. “I think the academic profile of the school, along with the work Mark and the administration have done with the facilities, gives us a chance to get the program off to a good start. The GLVC is a great conference and I’m looking forward to getting back into the league.”
During his playing career, Green earned all-conference honors on three occasions at Clarke College in Iowa, then served as a student assistant coach for the school’s women’s golf team for one season. He was also the head golf coach at Southwestern High School in Hazel Green, Wis., before taking the position at Maryville in 2008. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Central College in 2006.
“The first thing our players will have to do is get the job done in the classroom, or else they won’t be playing golf,” Green said. “One of the things I’ve seen over the last six years is the number of recruiting profiles of student-athletes who want to study engineering, so that’s a good thing for us in building the program as the classroom has to come first. I’m ready to hit the pavement running looking for those players.”
