Bruce Brockbank is winding up his legendary coaching career by leading BYU to an NCAA regional
The lessons and memories for the longtime Cougars coach have been plentiful in his 40 years.
BYU head men's golf coach Bruce Brockbank. | Jaren Wilkey/BYU Bruce Brockbank has spent 40 years trying to get to the NCAA golf regionals, and a week from Monday, his No. 24-ranked BYU team will make it.
It will be his last. Brockbank will officially retire as BYU’s head golf coach at the end of the season, and this trip to the regional at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens will wrap up a remarkable career filled with conference championships, tournament wins, All-America players, trophies, medals and tens of thousands of miles traveled. This year, he’s got a solidly built team, players familiar with the winner’s circle and photo ops holding hardware, led by one of the best players in the country, freshman sensation Kihei Akina.
“I’ve been fortunate to have had some great guys, right? ” said Brockbank on Friday. I’ve been covering Brockbank since he played at Timpview High School as a junior member at Riverside Country Club with his brother Scott and other T-Bird stars like Chuck O’Brien.
Their mothers would call us at The Provo Daily Herald to be sure we had results of junior tournaments for the scoreboard page or a two-paragraph story. Crazy. Here, I write about his retirement.
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