"I believe the Foundation can have a major impact on the future of college golf. This impact will come from the additional resources it will provide as well as help the sport gain the notoriety it deserves by highlighting the quality of the student-athletes involved." Bruce Heppler
Georgia Tech's run of Atlantic Coast Conference championships and NCAA Championships performances - 14 ACC titles, 19 trips to the NCAA Championship finals and four national runner-up finishes - are unprecedented for any sports program in school history, while the Yellow Jackets have won 72 tournaments in his 28 years.
Bruce Heppler has guided the Yellow Jackets to an NCAA regional every year since 1998 (no NCAA championships were held in the spring of 2020), while 19 of those teams advanced to the NCAA Finals. Twelve of those teams have finished in the top eight, with five of those teams reaching match play since that format was introduced in 2009, the Yellow Jackets reached the finals of match play at the NCAA Championship for the first time, where they fell to Florida 3-1, for the program's fifth all-time runner-up finish.
Prior to that, three Tech teams finished as national runner-up under the former 72-hole stroke-play format. During his tenure, Tech has won or shared 14 Atlantic Coast Conference titles. Only two ACC coaches have led their teams to more ACC titles than Heppler. With victories in the last four years by Andy Ogletree (2019) and Tyler Strafaci (2020), as well as Matt Kuchar in 1997, three of his players have won the coveted United States Amateur Championship, which is tied for the most by any college coach.
He has been named ACC Coach of the Year 10 times, most recently in 2019, more than any ACC coach in conference history. He also is a member of the Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in October of 2022.
Since 2000, Georgia Tech has finished outside of the top 10 in both polls only four times.
