Carson-Newman College Men's Golf

Wylie is in his second season as Carson-Newman's head men's golf coach.  He made a bang out of the gate, coaching Carson-Newman to a SAC tournament championship in his first event at the helm of the program.  The Eagles' tournament championship was their second all-time and their first since 2004.  Wylie then coached C-N to its first NCAA regional appearance since 2012 in 2014.  Wylie spent more than a decade at the University of Tennessee as both an assistant and volunteer assistant coach.  He is the Director of Instruction at Holston Hills in Knoxville. Wylie was Tennessee's PGA of America Section Teacher of the Year for 2010, as voted by the PGA membership throughout the state. He already was named the Knoxville area's PGA Teacher of the Year for a second straight season and the third time since 2004. Wylie has been a consensus Golf Digest "Best Teacher in Tennessee" since 2003. A 2008 inductee to the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame, Wylie won the 1984 Greater Knoxville Amateur and then played professionally for nine years. He was a member of the 1997 and 1998 Asian Golf Tour and made the cut in two U.S. Opens -- 1990 at Medinah Country Club in suburban Chicago, and 1997 at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. Wylies former boss, UT head coach Jim Kelson attended Wylies introductory presser on March 31, 2014. Kelson and Wylie have helped tutor a pair of Volunteer golfers who played as two of five amateurs at the Masters in Oliver Goss and Garrick Porteous in 2014.   Wylie has taught more than 30 juniors who have gone on to play golf at the collegiate level and he coached five All-Americans at UT.   Wylie graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in finance after being awarded All-Southwest Conference honors for his college golf successes.  He is married to Jennifer Schneider Wylie, a senior sales executive for WIVK Radio in Knoxville.