Men's Golf
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- d-inglis@northwestern.edu
- Phone:
- 491-9953
David Inglis will be entering his 12th year as head coach of the men's golf program at Northwestern, and his 16th year with the program overall, in 2025-26.
Northwestern has qualified for the NCAA Championships in 10 of Inglis' 11 seasons, advancing to the NCAA Championship Finals in 2018.
As head coach, Inglis has led the team to 12 team tournament victories, including the 2023-24 Big Ten Championship, and 13 individual titles, including three consecutive Big Ten individual titles: David Nyfjäll in 2022 and Daniel Svärd in 2023 and 2024. Svärd, a native of Jarfalla, Sweden, became Northwestern's third two-time individual champion in program history, joining Luke Donald (2000-01) and Sid Richardson (1937-38).
For his efforts, Inglis was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2023-24. He has had 22 All-Big Ten selections and five Big Ten All-Championship Team nods during his time as head coach: Dylan Wu (2017, 2018), Ryan Lumsden (2017), Nyfjäll (2022), Svärd (2023, 2024), and James Imai (2024).
The Northwestern Men’s Golf program currently has a number of alumni who are professional golfers, including European Ryder Cup captain Donald, Matt Fitzpatrick, David Lipsky, and Wu.
Under Inglis, Northwestern saw its first two Byron Nelson Award winners: Lumsden in 2019 and Nyfjäll in 2023. The highly prestigious award is given to a graduating senior who exemplifies excellence on and off the golf course. Cameron Adam was named a finalist for the award in 2024-25. Inglis has also mentored two Big Ten Freshman of the Year: Nyfjäll in 2019 and Svärd in 2023.
His squads have shot the three lowest team tournament rounds in program history (821 – 2023 NCAA Las Vegas Regional, 830 – 2023 Windon Memorial Classic, and 831 – 2022 Quail Valley Collegiate).
Inglis was hired as Northwestern's assistant men's golf coach prior to the 2010-11 season, marking the first collegiate coaching job for the former NCAA All-American and professional golfer. In both 2012-13 and 2013-14, Inglis was one of three finalists for the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Jan Strickland Award as the nation's top assistant coach. In September 2014, NU Director of Golf and Player Development Pat Goss elevated Inglis to head coach of the men's program.
After four years of successfully running NU's home Windon Memorial Classic and Northwestern's recruiting, Inglis took on more day-to-day program administration in his role as head coach, allowing Goss to dedicate more time to securing the future of Northwestern golf while remaining alongside Inglis as a day-to-day student-athlete golf instructor.
Inglis, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, was a four-time champion of the Western Athletic Conference and three-time All-American from 2000-04 at Tulsa, also winning Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar Athlete honors from the GCAA in 2003 and 2004. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2004.
In 2000, Inglis won the British Boys Amateur Championship, the largest boys event in Europe (equivalent to the U.S. Junior Championship). Inglis was instrumental in recruiting the 2012 British Boys champion -- Sheffield, England, native Matt Fitzpatrick -- who signed his NLI when he was the No. 11 ranked amateur in the world. Fitzpatrick would arrive in Evanston for the fall of 2013 as the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking after earning the Silver Medal at the 2013 Open Championship, finishing second in the English Men's Amateur and winning the 2013 U.S. Amateur Championship. He picked up two top-three finishes including one win for the Wildcats, then left NU following one quarter to turn professional after the 2014 U.S. Open.
While at Tulsa, Inglis competed as an amateur for the victorious GB&I Walker Cup team in 2003. He was a member of the European Palmer Cup Teams in 2001 and 2003, winning the event in 2003. Inglis was named an assistant coach for the 2011 European Palmer Cup team, making him the first former Palmer Cup competitor to later serve as a coach in the collegiate Ryder Cup-style event. Inglis returned to his post in the event for the 2012 staging, as well, helping the squad make a huge final day comeback to claim the Cup.
Inglis turned professional in 2004, competing on the European Tour, the Challenge Tour and several Mini Tours.
Beginning in October of 2005 and continuing until he joined Northwestern, Inglis worked at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he served as a golf instructor, junior golf coach and tournament organizer. He coached and mentored multiple junior golfers with the goal of preparing them for college golf.
