Ryan Hybl is new Ga Tech golf coach

A Georgia Bulldog is the new head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets golf team.
Former Jeff Davis County High School golfer Ryan Hybl, who has coached Oklahoma University the past 17 years and led them to a national championship in 2017, was announced Sunday as the next head coach at Georgia Tech.
Hybl was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2024 and led OU to 51 team tournament wins, 15 consecutive NCAA Championships appearances, making match play seven times, and the 15 best single-season scoring averages in school history. He has also coached 17 Sooners to 34 All-America honors, produced at least one All-American in all but two seasons, 18 all-conference selections, one Fred Haskins Award winner and a nation-leading eight PGA Tour University graduates.
“We’re ecstatic to welcome Ryan, Rebecca, Ady and Harper to the Georgia Tech family,” Georgia Tech athletic director Ryan Alpert said in a release. “It’s a significant statement for Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech golf and the legacy that Coach Bruce Heppler built in his 31 seasons on The Flats that a coach of Coach Hybl’s caliber and experience has accepted the opportunity to lead this program. We couldn’t be more grateful to Coach Heppler and all of his student-athletes that have made Georgia Tech golf one of the nation’s premier programs and we couldn’t be more excited for Coach Hybl to lead it into its next era.”
“To be entrusted with leading a program with such a rich tradition, and to take the torch from one of the greatest coaches in the history of our sport in Coach Heppler, is truly humbling,” Hybl said. “… I’m honored to be the head coach at an institution that has such a deep commitment to golf. It is a commitment that very few places in the nation can rival.”
Hybl, 44, added that his ties to Georgia – his parents, Tom and Cheryl Hybl, and brother, Nate, and his family – played a role in his decision to leave Norman, Okla.
“This is an opportunity for my family and me to come home,” Hybl said. “We’ve missed out on a lot of special moments with our family in Georgia over the years, and we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to not only lead such a great, historic program, but to do it at home.”
Hybl is the first head coach in Georgia Tech athletics history to have previously won a D-I national title before taking the reins for the Yellow Jackets.
Hybl is the son of former Jeff Davis High football coach Tom Hybl and former Jeff Davis County teacher Cheryl Hybl. The Hybls are retired and reside in the north Georgia mountains. Ryan’s brother, Nate, lives in the Atlanta area and owns a string of restaurants. He is a Jeff Davis High graduate and a member of the JDHS Football Hall of Fame.