Tyler Schmutz became head coach of the Virginia Commonwealth University golf program in Richmond, Virginia, on July 18, 2024. He arrived at VCU after two seasons as an assistant coach at Indiana, where the Hoosiers reached the NCAA Regionals twice, finished fourth at the 2023 Big Ten Championships, and posted the program's best conference championship result in a decade. Indiana also won two tournaments and recorded five top-three finishes in 2023-24, while two players earned All-Big Ten honors during Schmutz's time on staff, including Drew Salyers, who received PING All-America Honorable Mention recognition in 2023.
Before Indiana, Schmutz spent the 2021-22 season at Maryland, where the Terrapins finished third in the Big Ten, two strokes behind champion Illinois. He previously served as head coach at Division III Wabash College from 2019 to 2021, leading the program to school records for team scoring average and single-round team score, with two players earning all-conference honors. Earlier in his coaching career, he was an assistant coach at Division II Regis University from 2017 to 2019.
