Greg Towne is entering his 16th season at the leader of the Indiana State women’s golf team. He was named the second head coach of the Indiana State University women’s golf program on August 30, 2010, bringing 22 years of professional playing experience and 10 years of teaching tour professionals and skilled players to his position.
The Sycamores are coming off their best season since 2017-18, as the 2024-25 Sycamores accomplished the following feats:
- The team shot an average of 309.68 per round (0.07 off tying the 2017-18 season’s average).
- The 2024-25 season saw two team tournament wins: Braun Intercollegiate (fall) and PFW Hammock Beach Invitational (spring). It's the first time the program won two-plus tournaments in the full academic year since 2016-17 (that team won YSU Kickoff and ISU Spring Invitational).
- The 2024-25 team also shot a 295 (+7) in the year’s home Spring Invitational for their best round of the season. It's the best since also shooting a 295 in the 2018-19 season at the MVC Championships (not including a 291 on a par-70 course‚ +11).
In the program’s history, there have been four total individual event winners, with two coming in 2024-25: Yang Tai (fall) and Briana LeMaire (spring). The other two wins also were in Towne’s tenure, both in 2018-19.
In the 2013-14 season, the Sycamores were one stroke away from winning the conference title, marking the first time Indiana State finished as runners-up at the conference tournament under Coach Towne. The team still set a then school record for low 54-hole team score (901) with Amanda Smith setting the school record for low 54-hole individual score (219) and McCall Christopher the second best (220).
Things got even better in 2016 when the Sycamores went to Chicago with a lineup that consisted of four freshmen and one junior. Picked to finish in the lower half of the 10-team field, the Sycamores rose to the occasion to finish second, tying the school record for best finish in the history of the program at the league championship.
Coach Towne has competed at golf’s highest level most recently as a member of the European Senior Tour from 2009-2010 where he finished tied for 27th at the 2009 European PGA Championship. He also played on the Nationwide Tour for five years (1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999) with eight top 10’s and twenty top 25 finishes including a third place at the 1992 Panama City Beach Classic. He qualified and made the cut for the 1997 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., where he led the tournament in driving accuracy (89%).
Towne was a successful qualifier for the PGA TOUR finals in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1997, and a successful qualifier to the 1993 European PGA Tour finals. Towne is also a four-time winner of U.S. Open local qualifying tournaments and a three-time qualifier for the Honda Classic and Doral Ryder Open. He has won more than 150 mini-tour events and won the 1990 St. Louis Open. He has 10 competitive course records, 15 career holes in one, and finished ninth at the Dave Pelz World Putting Championship.
As an amateur, Towne was a 1977 Joe Namath Prep Sports All-American in baseball at Wichita Southeast High School and was an All-Missouri Valley Conference selection in 1982 as a member of the Wichita State golf team. He won the 1986 Kansas State Amateur Championship and was runner up at the 1987 Trans-Mississippi Tournament.
A 1982 graduate of Wichita State University with a bachelor’s in business administration-management, he worked in the banking industry for five years.
Towne was the lead instructor at Rabito Golf, one of Golf magazine’s Top 100, from 2001-2009. He has instructed several PGA Tour winners, major championship winners, mini tour professionals, and multiple Junior Champions.
Towne and his wife, Vicki, have three children: Tyler, Taylor, and Connor. All three graduated from Florida State.
