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Despite 'a couple of pretty low moments,' Ole Miss men's golf rallied to make history

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OXFORD – A lot has changed since the last time Ole Miss men’s golf won an SEC championship. First off, there were only 10 teams in the SEC back in 1984. Billy Brewer was the Rebels’ head football coach.

And current head coach Chris Malloy, the 2025 Golfweek Coach of the Year, was 6 years old and living in Virginia. You could say last Sunday was a long time coming in Oxford. “I saw something ...

OXFORD – A lot has changed since the last time Ole Miss men’s golf won an SEC championship. First off, there were only 10 teams in the SEC back in 1984. Billy Brewer was the Rebels’ head football coach.

And current head coach Chris Malloy, the 2025 Golfweek Coach of the Year, was 6 years old and living in Virginia. You could say last Sunday was a long time coming in Oxford. “I saw something yesterday or the day before that put it in perspective.

Ronald Reagan was president (and) 'Ghostbusters' was the movie coming out,” Malloy said. Coming off a program-best third-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 2025, expectations for the Rebels were sky high in the preseason, particularly with the anticipated return of NCAA individual champion Michael La Sasso. La Sasso participated in three fall events for Ole Miss before joining LIV Golf in late January, less than a month before the team’s first spring season tournament at the Watersound Invitational.

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