North Carolina State University Athletics
McPhaul Named Golf Coach At Vanderbilt
8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
McPhaul, 27, has a rich golf background as a competitor and as a coach. He has known Turner since the early 1990's when he was captain of the North Carolina State golf team. McPhaul replaces Jim Ragan, who recently became head men's coach at Oklahoma.
McPhaul has been with the Wolfpack men's coaching staff since 1998, where he is known as a strong recruiter. He helped begin North Carolina State's women's program in 1999 and was also serving as assistant women's coach upon his appointment to Vanderbilt.
McPhaul, a native of Sanford, N.C., has also been one of the state's finest amateur golfers. He was a member of the Wolfpacks' eighth place NCAA Tournament team in 1995 and played in three NCAA tournaments.
More recently, McPhaul was a semi-finalist in the 1998 Carolinas Amateur and placed third and second in the last two North Carolina Amateur tournaments.
"I look forward to continuing the building process that Jim Ragan and Mason Rudolph have put in place," McPhaul says. "I've known Todd Turner since I played collegiately and understand first hand his interest and commitment to the sport. All I needed to know was that he was at Vanderbilt to know I wanted to be there, too."
"Press McPhaul is the right man to continue building our program,"
Turner says. "He has the energy and enthusiasm of youth, he relates well to student-athletes and he knows the game inside-out."
McPhaul will begin his new duties immediately.
