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O'Callaghan Named Assistant Men's Golf Coach
August 11, 2014 | Men's Golf
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Aaron O'Callaghan was named an assistant men's golf coach at the University of Louisville, head coach Mark Crabtree announced.
O'Callaghan, a native of Cork, Ireland spent the last four years as the top assistant golf professional at the Baton Rouge Country Club in Baton Rouge, La. The 28-year old began his time in the teaching and coaching ranks in 2009, when he was hired as an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana.
"I'm very pleased to add Aaron to the coaching staff," Crabtree said of the hire. "He has all the qualities I was looking for in the position. He was an outstanding collegiate player, has a great personality for recruiting young players, and has become a gifted teacher of the game. Our players will benefit immediately from his teaching and golf management skills."
Before becoming a coach, O'Callaghan enjoyed success at both the amateur and professional levels. As an amateur in his native Ireland, O'Callaghan won the 2004 Irish Boys Championship, was awarded the 2003-2004 Jacques Leglise Trophy, and was named the Ireland Junior Sports Star of the Year in 2005.
Additionally, he was selected as a member of the 2003-2004 Great Britain and Ireland Boys Team, and represented Ireland in European and international competitions between 2003 and 2005.
As a collegiate player at Southeastern Louisiana from 2006 until 2009, O'Callaghan put together an impressive four-year career. O'Callaghan earned first team All-Southland Conference honors in 2007. He picked up tournament victories at the 2005 Reynolds Plantation Intercollegiate and at the 2007 Rice Invitational and in 2007, participated in the NCAA Championship.
At the professional ranks O'Callaghan competed in the 2011 European Tour Qualifying School, at which he advanced to the second stage. Competing as recently as April of this year, he also won the Old Waverly Invitational in West Point, Miss.
Born on May 24, 1986, O'Callaghan is the son of Brendan and Angela O'Callaghan and one of seven children.
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