John Fields

Biography

29th season at Texas Leadership. Class. Integrity. Player development. Championship culture. These all define John Fields, who begins his 29th season at the helm of The University of Texas men’s golf program in 2025-26. Fields became the Longhorns’ head coach in August 1997 and has guided Texas to 23 NCAA Championship appearances in his 27 opportunities (no NCAA tourney in 2020 due to COVID-19). Under Fields’ leadership, UT has posted 11 top-five finishes and 17 top-15 showings at the NCAA Championship, including NCAA team titles in 2012 and 2022 and runner-up showings in 2016 and 2019. The Longhorns have reached the NCAA quarterfinals (the ‘Match Play’ portion of the national championship) a total of eight times in their last 13 opportunities, tied with Illinois for the most nationally in that time window. UT owns the nation’s longest current streak of consecutive Division I Men’s Golf NCAA Championship appearances at 18, dating back to the 2007 season. Fields was selected as Golfweek’s Men’s National Coach of the Year in 2022. He earned the prestigious accolade for the third time during his tenure at Texas, as he previously received the honor in 2012 and 2016. Fields also was named the Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year a total of nine times in his time in Austin (2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2022). Texas claimed a total of nine Big 12 Conference team championships under Fields. The Longhorns won Big 12 team titles in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 201