Schmutz comes to Maryland from Wabash College (Division III), located in Crawfordsville, Ind., where he served as head coach from 2019-21. While with the Little Giants, he helped the team move up 84 spots in the Golfstat Division III rankings in the two years he was at the helm. The squad broke the team scoring average record in 2019-20, broke the single-round team scoring record in 2021, finished fourth in the North Coast Athletic Conference in 2021 (best finish for a Wabash team since 2009), and had two players named to All-Conference honors.
Before Wabash, Schmutz was the assistant coach at Regis University (Division II) in Denver, Colo., from 2017-19. In that position, he organized and conducted practices, worked with individual players, and oversaw the team’s strength and conditioning program, among other duties.Â
Prior to working at Regis, he was the Director of Client Management for GSE Worldwide, where he managed logistics for players on the PGA and Korn Ferry tours.Â
Schmutz graduated from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. in 2014. He earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Regis in May 2019. In 2013, he earned Cleveland Golf Srixon Scholar All-America honors and attended Parkland College in Champaign, Ill. prior to attending Huntingdon, where he was a PING All-Central Region selection.
His playing experience includes the following: third place in the Washington Metropolitan Golf Association Mid-Amateur in 2019, competed in the 2019 Maryland State Amateur, and 2019 and 2020 editions of the Indiana Open, among other amateur tournaments.
A native of the DMV area, Schmutz grew up in Gaithersburg, Md., and attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.
