Tom Lawrence was named Augustana’s head coach in May of 2013. A former Viking team captain in the sport of men’s cross country, Lawrence has made golf one of his passions after playing basketball and running track & field; cross country during his younger, competitive years.
Lawrence is in his 10th season in leading the Viking women’s team who secured a second place finish in the CCIW Championships this past October and posted an overall head-to-head mark of 67-16. The team shot a school record 296 at the Highland Classic in September. The Vikings have now finished in the top three in the CCIW for six consecutive seasons.
Lawrence holds degrees in Business Administration and Speech Communications from Augustana. “One thing I want to stress to the players on our team is to take things one-shot-at-a-time.” he said. “I believe that college athletics in general and golf in particular, is a great part of learning life skills. We are going to celebrate small victories with the thought that eventually those will be the building blocks to larger victories.”
Lawrence was the third of three brothers (Terry and Ted) to graduate from Augustana. He and his wife Donna (also an Augie grad) have three children – David who is the team’s Director of Player Performance, and daughters Jamie (2014) and Jenna (2018) who played for him during their Augustana years.
