Sam Foust joined San Diego golf in 2021 as an assistant coach. In September 2023, he was promoted to associate head coach. The 2024-2025 season will mark his fourth at USD.
San Diego has appeared in the NCAA Tournament each of Foust’s four years in Alcala Park thus far. With him on the staff the Toreros have earned six team wins, including the 2024 WCC Championship, the 2024 Lamkin Invitational, the 2023 El Macero Classic, the 2023 Wyoming World Match Play Championship, the 2022 Saint Mary’s Invitational, and the 2021 Hoakalei Invitational.
Additionally, five Toreros have won a tournament as an individual under Foust, including Craig Ronne (2024 Lamkin Invitational), Andi Xu (tied for first at the 2023 El Macero Classic and co-champion at the 2022 BYU Ping Cougar Classic), Charlie Reiter (2021 Hoakalei Invitational), and Harrison Kingsley (2021 Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational).
Foust’s mentees have succeeded on some of amateur and professional golf’s biggest stages, with Reiter becoming a two-time U.S. Open Championship qualifier and Xu placing second at the USD-hosted 2024 NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional to earn a spot in the NCAA National Championship.
He joined the Toreros from the University of Oregon, where he won a national championship with the Ducks in 2016 as a player under head coach Casey Martin. While at UO, Foust was a Pac-12 Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year Nominee (2017), won the UO Scholar-Athlete Award (2019, 2018, 2017), served on the UO Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016), and was the Team Leader in cumulative GPA (2018, 2017, 2016).
Foust, who graduated from Oregon with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in June of 2019, is a native of Edina, Minnesota.
