Ashford Park Resident Snags Top Coaching Honors
Georgia Tech assistant golf coach Christian Newton was named top golf assistant in the nation as the recipient of the 2011 Jan Strickland Award
In a mental sport like golf, you need all the advantages you can get. Now Georgia Tech’s golf team can boast another advantage: its assistant coach has been named the top assistant in the nation. Christian Newton was named the recipient of the 2011 Jan Strickland Award by the Golf Coaches Association of America. “It’s quite an honor to even be nominated,” he said. “To be in the same sentence as the rest of the coaches that were nominated is an honor. And then to go on to be the winner along with all the past winners is just something else.” Newton has been a part of the Georgia Tech coaching staff for four years, he also spent time at Alabama and Georgia Southern – where he played for four years as an undergrad – and is responsible for …
