Leadership qualities

Scott Limbaugh of Vanderbilt and Alabama’s Mic Potter will coach the United States team at Alotian, while the International side will be led by Jan Dowling of Michigan and Canada and Mark Immelman of Columbus State and South Africa.

Limbaugh [pictured below, on the left] has lifted the Vanderbilt golf program to new heights in his seven seasons with the Commodores. Limbaugh has mentored four Ping First-Team All-Americans, four Arnold Palmer Cup selections, a Walker Cup member and 13 total Ping All-America selections. Under Limbaugh, Vanderbilt has won 20 team tournaments—the most by a head coach in Vanderbilt golf history— and produced 16 individual tournament winners. In 2017, he was awarded the program’s first Dave Williams National Coach of the Year Award.

Potter is in his 14th season at Alabama and led the school to its first national championship in 2012. He received National Coach of the Year honors from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association in 2018.

Dowling, who was an assistant coach at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup, has spent the last four seasons reshaping the Wolverine program into a Big Ten and a national contender. Her Wolverines have made back-to-back trips to the NCAA Championships in 2016 and 2017.

Immelman, the older brother of 2008 Masters champ Trevor, is in his 18th season at Columbus State. After 14 years heading up the men’s program, Immelman was promoted to director of golf in 2015 to oversee the men’s and women’s programs. He has rebuilt the CSU program to its traditional place among the Division II elite and was named 2009 NCAA Division II Dave Williams National Coach of the Year.