California Athletics Hall of Fame
Over his 37 years as the Cal men’s golf coach, Steve Desimone built the program from a club sport into a national championship team in 2004 and a perennial contender for the NCAA Championship thereafter. Overall, he guided the Bears to 11 NCAA Championships appearances, two Pac-12 titles and a pair of NCAA regional crowns. His 2012-13 squad won an NCAA-record 12 of 14 stroke-play events and reached the NCAA semifinals. Desimone was a two-time National Coach of the Year (2004, 2013) and three-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (1987, 2012, 2013). Over the course of his career, Cal teams captured 66 tournaments, and he mentored 22 All-Americans and 23 All-American Scholars, with 32 student-athletes advancing to play professional golf. In 2013, he served as coach of the U.S. team at the Palmer Cup and was named the CGBWA Jack Lemmon Ambassador of Golf. Desimone was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Northern California Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2014.
