Tommy Snell built a golf dynasty at Gulf Coast which reached the pinnacle with the first team NJCAA Golf Championship in school history. Now, he’s returned as an assistant coach.
His Bulldog teams finished in the top five at the NJCAA Tournament seven times between 2012 and 2019, with three more top-10 finishes. His teams won 11 of his final 12 NJCAA Region 23/District D tournaments, and more than 40 of his golfer went on to play at four-year schools. He retired as head coach following the 2021 season.
Snell started at Perkinston in 2000, and he was inducted into the NJCAA Men’s Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2015. His teams won seven MACJC championships and were runners-up seven times, and he was the Mississippi Association of Coaches Community College Coach of the Year in 2016.
Gulf Coast has sent golfers to the national tournament every year since 2002, and Snell was named PING Coach of the Year in 2008 and the Dave Williams Coach of the Year for NJCAA Division II in 2018.
Prior to coming to Gulf Coast, Snell was the golf coach at St. John High School, where his team won five straight Class 2A state championships. He was a three-time Mississippi High School Activities Association Coach of the Year.
Snell is very active on the national golf scene as a United States Golf Association rules official and committeeman. He is a frequent rules official at NCAA championships and is on the NCAA Division I national championship committee.
Snell was on the Golf Coaches Association of America national championship advisory board, and was a weekly columnist for the Sun Herald. He was a U.S Open qualifying medalist in 1980 and winner of several amateur and professional tournaments.
He attended Gulfport East High School before graduating from Sam Houston High in Arlington, Texas. Snell earned a bachelor’s degree in English from The University of Southern Miss, graduating with highest honors. He also has a master’s from William Carey.
Snell has been married to his wife, Charlotte, the Coordinator of Instruction and Student Services at MGCCC, for nearly 40 years. He has four children.
Tommy Snell's MGCCC Record |
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Overall | MACJC | |||||
Season | Wins | Losses | Ties | Wins | Losses | Ties |
2000-2001 | ||||||
2001-2002 | ||||||
2002-2003 | ||||||
2003-2004 | ||||||
2004-2005 | ||||||
2005-2006 | 118 | 8 | 0 | 64 | 4 | 0 |
2006-2007 | 103 | 52 | 0 | 62 | 3 | 0 |
2007-2008 | 101 | 60 | 1 | 54 | 0 | 0 |
2008-2009 | 100 | 23 | 0 | 69 | 2 | 0 |
2009-2010 | 91 | 25 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 0 |
2010-2011 | 40 | 23 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 0 |
2011-2012 | 98 | 28 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 0 |
2012-2013 | 88 | 42 | 0 | 48 | 4 | 0 |
2013-2014 | 92 | 32 | 0 | 43 | 4 | 0 |
2015-2015 | 107 | 18 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 0 |
2015-2016 | 79 | 6 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 0 |
2016-2017 | 95 | 20 | 52 | 8 | ||
2017-2018 | 99 | 12 | 22 | 3 | ||
2018-2019 | 89 | 5 | 28 | 0 | ||
2019-2020 | 47 | 15 | 15 | 0 | ||
2020-2021 | 54 | 18 | 34 | 7 |