Holy coach: How did a minister raise four PGA Tour winners from one high school?

The numbers get you close to a story but are too indifferent to describe a life. From 1997 to 2008, King Oehmig might have been the most successful high school golf coach in America. At his alma mater, Baylor School, a private boarding and day school in Chattanooga, Tenn., Oehmig’s teams won 21 state championships. This included five girls winning 11 individual state championships and three boys bringing home four individual titles. Four of the boys he coached-Luke List, Keith Mitchell, Harris English and Stephen Jaeger-have all won on the PGA Tour and one of the girls, Brooke Pancake Rende, won the girls’ state title four years in a row before attending Alabama, winning a team NCAA title and then playing on the LPGA Tour.

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