Stew Burke - Women's Golf Coach - Tulane University Athletics

Stew Burke

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
sburke8@tulane.edu
Phone:
314-7248

Enters his fourth year as the head golf coach at Tulane.

Burke led the Green Wave to their most successful season since 2016. He earned AAC Coach of the Year honors after the team won the AAC tournament for the first time since 2014 and the first NCAA Regional appearance since 2016. Three from Burke's 2021-22 roster earned AAC All-Conference honors and one finished in the top ten at the NCAA Stillwater Regional.

Stew Burke started his career as the Green Wave head women’s golf coach in the 2019-20 season. Burke became the sixth head coach in the 30-year history of the Green Wave women’s golf program.

In his first season, the Olive and Blue posted five top 10 finishes with a season-best finish of sixth at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. Two golfers finished in the top 10 at a tournament this season for Tulane with Carlota Palacios posting a team-best tie for second at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. Every returning golfer improved their stroke average in Burke's first season.

Burke came to Tulane after spending three seasons at the University of Southern California serving as the Trojans’ associate head coach.

During the 2018-19 season, USC was ranked as the nation’s No. 1 team in the Golfstat and Golfweek rankings. The Trojans also captured the 2019 PAC-12 Championship and the NCAA West Regional crown.

Over his three-year tenure at USC, Burke helped guide the Trojans to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Final Four (2017 and 2018) and one trip to the Elite Eight (2019). In addition, the Trojans captured 14 team victories and posted a staggering mark of 18 consecutive finishes in the top three from the spring of 2018 to the spring of 2019.

The Scotland native has also established a strong reputation of developing individual excellence during his time at USC, as he coached eight First Team PAC-12 All-Conference players and 10 All-Americans.

Burke began his Division I collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach for the Kansas State women’s golf team in the spring of 2014.

He helped the Wildcats post the top two team stroke averages in school history during the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. He also coached four individual medalists, four Big 12 Players of the Month and one NCAA Regional qualifier during his time with the Wildcats.

Prior to his arrival in Manhattan, Kansas, the Wildcats owned a GolfStat.com ranking of 105. Upon his departure from KSU, Burke guided the program to a Top 40 ranking. He also helped guide the Wildcats to three team victories over his three-year tenure at KSU.

He joined Kansas State after three years working as the Director of Recruitment at United Sports USA, a company that assists NCAA Division I coaches of all sports with recruiting the top student-athletes from the United Kingdom and Europe. A partner who helped set up United Sports USA, Burke also previously worked at a similar organization called First Point USA Sport Scholarship Consultants.

Burke played collegiately at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, where he graduated with a degree in Sports Management in 2007. He served as an assistant coach with Lindenwood’s men’s and women’s golf teams in 2008.

While competing at Lindenwood from 2003-07, Burke worked at Old Hickory Golf Club in St. Peters, Missouri, as the Acting Director of Golf. At Old Hickory, Burke managed personnel, oversaw tournament operations and scoring functions while running the junior summer program, among other responsibilities.