Tim Mickelson
Head Men's Golf Coach

Tim Mickelson, who had led the University of San Diego to the school's first three NCAA appearances in program history, was named Sun Devil head men's golf on July 10, 2011. Mickelson, a four-time West Coast Conference Coach of the Year honors, is the 13th coach in the history of the program which won national titles in 1990 (under Steve Loy) and 1996 (under Randy Lein).
 
"Sun Devil fans have heard me speak frequently about identifying and hiring Master Coaches at Arizona State University," said Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love. "Tim Mickelson possesses the qualities of what we're looking for and not just because of his famous last name. He is a talented leader, a knowledgeable coach and a dynamic recruiter. He has the ability to rally our Sun Devil community around the sport of men's golf. He knows our program from being a student-athlete here and he understands the Sun Devil Way. When our other head coaches and staff met him they also were struck by his personality and demeanor."
 
"It's an honor to be the next men's golf coach at Arizona State," says Mickelson. "Our goal will be to produce teams and individuals who are competing at the highest level. I want to express my gratitude the University of San Diego for giving me the opportunity to become a head coach and I also want to thank everyone at ASU for the opportunity to take the reins of this program and guide them in the future. I look forward to working with the Phoenix golf community in promoting the program and working with another national championship coach in Melissa McNamara Luellen [women's golf NCAA champions in 2009]. It's an honor and a privilege to once again be a part of Arizona State and the Pac-12 Conference. Fork `em Devils!"
 
Mickelson, the younger brother of Sun Devil and PGA Tour professional Phil Mickelson, arrived at ASU following a remarkable eight-year run at USD where he steadily built the program into a national contender, which has finished in the Top 20 each of his last three years (2009-11), including an eighth-place finish in 2010. In addition to advancing to NCAAs the final three seasons, Mickelson guided the program to the NCAA Regionals five of his final six seasons, including the last four. He also spear-headed the most successful season in USD history in 2009-10, leading the Toreros to a school-record five tournament victories and 10 top-five team finishe
 
In 2011 Mickelson was named WCC Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his career (2011, 2010, 2008, 2005), as he led the Toreros to nine top-five finishes, including a pair of tournament victories, and a 16th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Under Mickelson's guidance, USD junior Alex Ching was named the WCC's Golfer of the Year.
 
After inheriting a Torero team that had placed in the lower half of the WCC in 2003, Mickelson immediately led San Diego to a top-tier conference finish in his first year directing the fortunes of the USD program. Mickelson's second campaign was highlighted by San Diego winning team championship honors at the 17-school, 2005 Men's Fidelity National Title held at Cypress Ridge Golf Course on California's Central Coast.
 
Prior to taking the head coaching position at USD, Mickelson spent two seasons as assistant to Dale Walker at San Diego State, helping lead the Aztecs to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Regionals, as well as an appearance in the 2003 NCAA National Championship.
 
Mickelson, who was a member of ASU's 1996 NCAA Championship team, played three seasons at Arizona State (1995-1998) before concluding his collegiate career at Oregon State. He earned Academic All-Pac-10 honors in 1997 and 1998. At OSU Mickelson finished second individually at the 2000 Pac-10 Championships, leading the Beavers to a second-place conference finish. The current holder of numerous OSU golf records, including low 18, 36, 54, and 72-hole scoring records, he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies.

Melissa Luellen
Head Women's Golf Coach

With Melissa Luellen at the helm, Arizona State University women's golf program, the Sun Devils have again reached the highest level of success. In nine years, the Sun Devils under Luellen has accomplished the following:



· NCAA Team Championship in 2009
· Two Pac-10 Titles
· NCAA Individual Champion in 2008 (Azahara Munoz)
· 20 Tournament Team Titles
· 10 Golfers named to a total of 19 All-American teams
· Two Pac-10 Golfers of the Year
· Three NGCA Freshmen of the Year
· 14 Individual Tournament Medalists
 
Luellen's superior coaching capabilities have earned her a myriad of honors. After the Sun Devils NCAA Championship run in 2009, Luellen was named SkyCaddie NGCA Coach of the Year. She has been named Pacific-10 Coach of the Year three times while at ASU, in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Luellen has been awarded West Regional Coach of the Year four times in her career (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) and was also named Central Regional Coach of the Year while at Tulsa in 2002.
 
While Luellen's golfers have surely succeeded on the greens, what is more impressive is how they have excelled in the classroom. Five of Luellen's Sun Devil athletes have been honored by the NGCA as Academic All-Americans. In 2009, 2008 NCAA Champion Azahara Munoz also became the first double winner of the Edith Cummings Munson Award, which is given to the All-American with the highest GPA. The following year, the award was kept in the Sun Devil family as Juliana Murcia won the same honor. Luellen has had 19 athletes be placed on Pac-10 All-Academic teams for a total of 33 honors.
 
Luellen came to ASU after spending two seasons as the head women's golf coach at her alma mater, the University of Tulsa (2001-02). Luellen, a four-time All-American for the Golden Hurricane, succeeded her mother, Dale McNamara, who retired in 2000 following a 26-year career that saw her Tulsa teams win four national championships.
 
In her two seasons as Tulsa's head coach, Luellen led her team to seven tournament titles including back-to-back Western Athletic Conference and NCAA Central Regional championships in each year. The 2001-02 season saw her team win five tournaments, including the 2002 PING/ASU Championship at Karsten Golf Course, earn a No. 3 national ranking for most of the season and finish 12th at the 2002 NCAA Championships. Luellen was named the Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in each of her two seasons and was the 2002 Central Regional Coach of the Year.
 
Not only has Luellen proven herself as a top-tier coach, she was a successful golfer herself. Luellen was a four-time All-American at the University of Tulsa. She won medalist honors at four tournaments, including just the second event of her collegiate career and finished in the top 10 in 22 of 41 career events. She capped off a stellar collegiate career by capturing a two-stroke individual victory at the 1988 NCAA Championship and leading the Golden Hurricanes to the national team title.
 
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of Tulsa in 1988, Luellen competed on the Futures and Ladies European Tours in 1988 and 1989 before qualifying for the LPGA Tour in October of 1989. She spent 11 years on the LPGA Tour, winning the 1991 Stratton Mountain LPGA Classic and teaming with Mike Springer to win the 1993 JC Penney Classic. She was also elected to the LPGA Executive Committee in her final two years on the tour.
 

Prior to entering college, she was a three-time Oklahoma state high school champion and American Junior Golf Association All-American (1982-1984) in 1983, she was named the AJGA Player of the Year. Luellen was inducted to the National Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998 and the University of Tulsa Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.
 
Luellen and her husband, Mark, were married on Dec. 14, 2002 in Scottsdale. The couple lives in Cave Creek. They have a son, Drake, and a daughter, Sydney, and one dog, Seamus and one cat, Kitty Moe.

Missy Farr-Kaye
Associate Head Coach Women's Golf

Former Sun Devil standout Missy Farr-Kaye is in her eighth year as an assistant coach for the Sun Devil women's golf team. In 2006, Farr-Kaye was named Associate Head Coach.
 
Last year, Farr-Kaye helped the Sun Devils win their first Pac-10 Championship in eleven years. She is instrumental in running the Thunderbird Pro-Am, ASU's largest fundraiser, and the PING/ASU Invitational, which is one of the most prestigious collegiate tournaments in the country.

Farr-Kaye has returned to her alma mater, where she was a model of consistency on the Sun Devil women's golf team from 1985-90. She won the 1986 Trojan-Desert Bruin Classic in her collegiate debut. A second-team All-Pac-10 selection and two-time Phoenix City champion, she finished in the top 10 in five events in 1989-90 and capped off her collegiate career by helping Arizona State win the 1990 NCAA Championship, the first of the team's six NCAA titles in the 1990s.
 
"It's just a thrill to be here as an assistant coach. This university, this athletic department, and especially this golf program are very special to me and always have been," said Farr-Kaye, who is the sister of the late Heather Farr, a Sun Devil All-American and LPGA star. "To have an opportunity to come in and work with Melissa Luellen is an exciting opportunity to me."
 
Following her graduation from ASU in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in organizational communication, Farr-Kaye played professional golf. She then served as the club professional at the Orange Tree Golf Resort in Scottsdale from 1991-93.
 
"When I thought about all of the things that I was looking for in an assistant coach, Missy covered the bases on all of them. She's a homerun," Luellen said. "She is a great player and she's a positive person to be around with great inspiration. Missy's organizational skills will help me a lot, and she's a good friend."
 
Farr-Kaye regained her amateur status in 1996 and has spent the last six years playing in amateur events. She has won the Arizona State Amateur Championship twice and captured the 2002 Arizona Women's Open. She also finished as the runner-up at the 2001 U.S. Public Links Championships.
 
"Melissa and I have known each other for over 20 years, and I think we will complement each other very well," Farr-Kaye said. "We have both won national championships and we both have similar standards and goals. We both know that this program can be the best in the country, and that's where we want to take it together. Coach Linda Vollstedt laid a tremendous foundation and tradition for us to continue to build upon."
 
A 1985 graduate of Xavier High School in Phoenix, Farr-Kaye resides in Scottsdale with her three children, Dalton, Riley, and Cameron.

Michael Beard
Assistant Men's Golf Coach

Michael Beard, who helped lead the Pepperdine Waves to the NCAA Championships in 2011 for the first time since 2006 as an assistant coach, joined the Sun Devil staff under Tim Mickelson in August of 2011.
 
"Michael is a great recruiter and a positive communicator who will help our program in so many ways," said Mickelson, hired in early July. "He will best complement me as a coach and we will work great together as a well-rounded staff. I look forward to matching his energy and having our players benefit from his great backround."
 
Beard earned Golf Coaches All-American honorable mention status in both 2000 and 2002 while as a player at Pepperdine. He was the medalist at the 2000 NCAA West Regional and the 2002 West Coast Conference Championships, and was a four-time All-WCC first-teamer between 1999 and 2002.
 
"I am really excited to join the Sun Devil program, which has long been known as one of the best in the nation, and help each player reach his potential," says Beard. "This program has won national and conference titles and has had players win all the top amateur tournaments around the world, and we hope to continue and improve that tradition. I can't wait to get started working with each player and getting to know the Phoenix golf community."
 
He is well-represented on Pepperdine's career records lists, ranking first in total rounds played (162), tied for first in top 10 finishes (22), third in career average (72.72) and tied for third in top 20 finishes (31). He averaged 72.07 strokes per round as a 2001-02 senior, which at the time was the school record and now stands fifth.
 
Pepperdine won WCC titles all four of his seasons and went to the NCAA Championships twice, including an eighth-place finish in 2002 where Beard tied for eighth in the individual standings.
 
After graduating from Pepperdine in 2002 with a degree in organizational communications, Beard turned professional and went on to play on the Gateway Tour (2003), Nationwide Tour (2004) and Canadian Tour (2005) as well as other various mini-tours. He played in two PGA Tour events: the 2004 Bob Hope Classic and 2005 Buick Open.
 
From 2008-10, Beard spent time teaching golf at Pronghorn Golf Club in Bend, Ore., and the Palms Golf Club in La Quinta, Calif.
 
He has had the opportunity to learn from some of the best teachers in the game, including Butch Harmon, Phil Rodgers and Stan Utley.
 
He and his wife Susannah have a son Clark. His father, Frank, is a former PGA player who led the Tour in earnings in 1969 and notched 11 PGA Tour wins. His best finishes in a major tournament were a third-place finish (1965) and a tie for third (1975) in the U.S. Open.

Matt Trimble
PGA Golf Instructor

A Class "A" member of the PGA, Matt Trimble brings many years of instruction experience to his students. Matt has served as a full-time golf instructor at the ASU Karsten Golf Course for the past 12 years. He also works on cooperative efforts with Arizona State University's nationally ranked golf programs. As a consultant to Titleist, Matt worked on the development of the 1994-95 club fitting program and design. Prior to joining the ASU Karsten team, Matt spent 7 years at Desert Highlands Golf Club in Scottsdale, the private Nicklaus designed course most recognized as the originator of the popular "Skins Game." Matt's students include standout high school golfers, mini-tour players as well as local scratch amateurs. However, beginners comprise a significant portion of his student base, as do women golfers. Knowledge, clarity of communication, patience and success rate are the key reasons to invest your efforts with Matt Trimble.

Teaching Philosophy
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals... Let me show you what good players do. Let me show what you are doing via video playback. Then, lets develop a practice routine to help you quickly transition to a more productive set of mechanics. I want my students to know what to practice and how to practice. But most importantly, I want my students to understand WHY good players do what they do. After a lesson with me, you will understand how the practice will improve your game.