George Koury - Men's Golf Coach - Air Force Academy Athletics

George Koury

Title:
Men's Golf Head Coach
Email:
George.Koury@afacademy.af.edu
Phone:
719-333-7142

George Koury was named the associate athletic director for recruiting in August, 2021. Koury served as the Falcons' head golf coach for 19 seasons (2002-21) prior to taking his new position.

A 1993 Academy graduate, Koury returned to the Academy in 1999 as an assistant golf coach under AFA Athletics Hall of Fame coach Gene Miranda, working with both the varsity and the junior varsity programs. Koury was named head golf coach prior to the 2002-03 season. He was also a member of the Falcons' golf team from 1990-93, where he served as team captain and earned MVP honors in his final year.

In 2016-17, the Falcons tied for the fourth-best finish in school history at the Mountain West Championships. The Falcons placed seventh, the best finish since 2014.

In 2012-13, the Falcons shattered the Academy record for team scoring average by more than five strokes per tournament, while also posting a school-record three-round total of 829 -- a score that bettered the previous record by 11 strokes -- during a winning performance at the Jackrabbit Invitational.

The Falcons finished fourth at the Mountain West Championships during back-to-back years (2013, 2014) to match the best team finish at a conference tournament in program history. He also coached Kyle Westmoreland to a fourth-place individual finish in 2014, which was the best conference finish since 1985.

He has helped the Falcons continue their unprecedented dominance at the annual Service Academy Golf Classic, bringing home the championship trophy in each of his seasons at the helm of the program.

In the fall of 2005, Koury helped guide Air Force to a first-place finish at the season-opening Falcon Invitational, marking the team's first outright championship at its own tournament since 1969.

Air Force, which claimed another Falcon Invitational title in 2013, has recorded 13 team wins under Koury's leadership. Koury has also been successful in recruiting, bringing in several players that have started as freshmen, including Westmoreland, 2007 graduate Tyler Goulding, who ranks among the most successful golfers in Academy history, and 2010 graduate Tom Whitney, a participant in both the 2009 U.S. Publinks and U.S. Amateur Tournaments.

Koury guided both Goulding and Whitney to all-conference honors, while Goulding, Whitney and Westmoreland all qualified to the NCAA Regional Championships. Koury has also coached a pair of All-America Scholars in Whitney and 2005 graduate Scott Redmond.

Whitney has continued to excel on the course, post-graduation, collecting four professional wins. In 2018, he played in three PGA events.

Meanwhile, Koury's golfers hold 20 of the 25 lowest individual tournament scores in school history. A constant supporter of the game, Koury has served as numerous committees for the Golf Coaches Association of America, including the chair of the Coach of the Year committee and Division I representative to the CGAA Board.

Koury graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1993 with a degree in engineering mechanics. Following graduation, he was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, where he served as a research and development engineer for robotics technologies. In 1996, he moved to Okinawa, Japan, and served as a civil engineer until returning to the Academy in June of 1999.