Noah Goldman Named Men's Golf Assistant Coach

Noah Goldman, associate head coach at Oregon State and a former collegiate player at Mississippi State, is joining the University of North Carolina men's golf coaching staff, Tar Heel head coach Andrew DiBitetto announced today.

Goldman has coached the Beavers for six seasons, including the last two as associate head coach. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Jan Strickland Award, which is presented annually to the top assistant coach in the country.

"Noah is a rising star," says DiBitetto. "He joins our program from Oregon State where Jon Reehoorn and the Beaver golf program are widely respected. Noah is relationship based, communicates well, is incredibly intelligent and very competitive. He's detail oriented, loves pressure and is committed to getting better each day. Noah had a strong playing career in college and is still a very good player today. During the interview process, I left each conversation more and more impressed. We are excited to learn more about Noah and work with him and welcome Noah, Ashley, Ellie and Mila into our Carolina Golf family."

Goldman played at Mississippi State from 2005-08 and professionally for two seasons before beginning his coaching career as a volunteer assistant with the women's team at Samford in 2011. He spent two years (2012-14) as an assistant for both the men's and women's teams at Nova Southeastern and three years as the assistant men's coach at his alma mater in Starkville, Miss., from 2014-17. The Nova Southeastern men's team finished third in the 2013 NCAA Division II Championship and second in 2014, while the women's team placed second in 2013.

He joined the OSU program in Corvallis in the summer of 2017, where he worked with head coach Jon Reehorn.

"The rise of the North Carolina men's golf program has been obvious to everyone following college golf," says Goldman. "I'm excited to join Coach DiBitetto and can't wait to get started in helping these young men and the golf program reach their full potential."

Oregon State won five team titles and five different players (Carson Barry, Shawn Lu, Spencer Tibbits, Brandon Eyre and Mateo Fuenmayor) were medalists during his tenure.

The Beavers played in four straight NCAA regionals, only the second time in program history they qualified for the postseason in four consecutive seasons. In 2021, Tibbits and Lu finished in the top 10 and OSU tied for second in the NCAA Albuquerque Regional, the highest finish in a regional in school history. It marked a return to the NCAA Championship for the Beavers for the first time in seven years. Barry and Tibbits went on to make the fourth-round cut in the NCAA Championship.

This past season the Beavers shot 23 under par to tie for 10^th in the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, the second-best postseason scoring total in OSU history. The Beavers had three consecutive second-place finishes and tied for sixth in the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate, tying No. 6-ranked Texas and beating No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 27 Baylor. Two Beavers won Pac-12 Player-of-the-Week honors.

The Longwood, Fla., native was a two-time SEC Player of the Week and won four college tournaments at Mississippi State, the third-most by a Bulldog. His career scoring average of 73.99 was fifth-lowest in school history and he shot the third-lowest round (64 at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, Texas) and has the sixth-best single-season average (72.82 in 2007-08) in MSU history.

Goldman graduated magna cum laude in 2008 and earned his MBA at Mississippi State the following year. He was a Dean's List, Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar, President's Scholar and McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award (graduate studies scholarship) winner.

On July 11, Goldman shot 2-under 140 at Trysting Tree Golf Club in Corvallis to tie for first and qualify for the 2023 U.S. Amateur, which will be played in August in Colorado.

He and his wife, Ashley, have two daughters, Ellie and Mila.

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