George Boutell
Golf / 1965-1967
Boutell was the first ASU player to make first-team All-America in golf, 1966. He was the Amateur Golfer of the Year in 1965 as selected by all four national golfing publications. He was also the Arizona Amateur Champion, 1962, and the Eastern Amateur Trans-Mississippi and Tucker Collegiate Invitational Champion, 1965. He became the ASU Golf Coach in 1975.
Jim Carter
Golf/1981-84
A 1995 ASU Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Carter became ASU's first NCAA men's golf champion in 1983. During that year he also captured medalist honors at the Southwest Amateur and was a first-team All-Pac-10 and first-team All-American selection. In 1984, he earned All-Pac-10 and All-American honors and also was medalist at the Arizona Intercollegiate and the Sun Devil-Phoenix Thunderbird Invitational.
Dan Forsman
Golf/1978-81
Dan Forsman followed a season in which he was a first-team All-Pac-10 and third-team All-American selection in 1980 by becoming the Pac-10 Co-Player of the year in 1981. He was named to the first-team Pac-10 Conference and second-team All-American squads and earned conference medalist honors in his final season. He was inducted into ASU's Hall of Fame in 1992.
Bob Gilder
Golf / 1972-1974
The Western Athletic Conference golf champion in 1973, he was selected three times to the All-WAC teams and once to the All-America squad. He became a PGA professional in 1975 and went on to become only the fourth player in PGA history to earn more than $100,000 in his first season. His first tournament victory was in Arizona as he captured the 1976 Phoenix Open crown. Gilder was a runner-up for the PGA Rookie of the Year title in 1976. He has finished among the top 60 PGA money winners since turning professional, finishing 36th among 283 PGA golfers in 1978. He entered 31 tournaments in 1978, placed among the top ten in eight of them, earned money in 23, and had a 71.9 stroke average per round.
Coach Bill Mann
Golf/1961-75 and 1987
Inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 2000, Bill Mann built a legacy in his fifteen years as head coach. From 1961-1975 and 1987, Mann brought home 26 team titles, including conference championships in 1969 and 1971. He led ASU to seven top-10 finishes in the NCAAs, including a third-place finish in 1969. His squads earned fifth-place NCAA finishes in 1966, and 1972.
Billy Mayfair
Golf / 1985-1988
Mayfair was a four-time All Pac-10 First-Team Conference selection (1985-1988). He is the first golfer ever to win both U.S. Public Links (1986) and U.S. Amateur (1987). He is an ASU four-time All-American (1985-1988), earning First-Team accolades twice, Pac-10, NCAA and Golf Coaches Association of America's Player of the Year in 1987. He was the winner of the Haskins Award that same year. He placed in the top 10 in 12 tournaments, and secured the Amateur Title in the Pac-Northwest and Pac-Coast Tournaments in 1987-88.
Phil Mickelson
Golf / 1988-1992
Mickelson is regarded as the best amateur golfer of all-time and won 16 collegiate tournaments including NCAA titles in 1989, 1990 and 1992 and was a four-time All-American. He led ASU to its first NCAA crown in men's golf in 1990 and earned a degree in psychology in 1992. He also won the U.S. Amateur in 1990.
Mike Morely
Golf / 1964-1968
A first-team All-America in 1968, he set an NCAA Championship nine-hole record of 30
(6 under par) at Las Cruces, NM. In 1967, he won the Sun Devil Classic and reached the quarter-finals of the United States Amateur Championship - automatically winning a spot in the 1968 Masters. A two-time All-Western Athletic Conference selection, he joined the PGA Tour after completing his collegiate career.
Tom Purtzer
Golf/1970-73
Tom Purtzer, who earned his PGA membership in 1975, won the 1971 and 1973 Arizona Collegiate. A member of Arizona State's golf teams from 1970-73, he was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 1989 and was a second-team All-American in 1973.
Howard Twitty
Golf / 1970-1972
Twitty was an All-American first team in 1970 and 1972, and second team in 1971. He was a runner-up in the 1972 NCAA Championship Tournament. He was rated the number three amateur in the country in 1970. He was All-Western Athletic Conference for three years. Twitty was the Porter Cup Champion in 1970, and finished second in the Tucson Open in 1976 as well. He was the winner of the Thailand Open in 1975. He is currently a member of the PGA tour.