Career
Alexander is the former head coach of the Florida Gators men"s golf team of the University of Florida. He is best known for coaching the Gators to National Collegiate Athletic Association (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I tournament championships in 1993 and 2001. During his collegiate playing career at Georgia Southern University, Alexander was recognized as an All-American in 1974 and 1975.
Alexander served as the head coach of the Florida Gators men"s golf team from January 1988 to April 2014.
During the 2001 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, Alexander also coached team captain Nick Gilliam to an individual National Collegiate Athletic Association golf championship, only the second in the history of the Gators golf program Alexander previously coached the men"s and women"s golf teams at Louisiana State University (Louisiana State University) from 1983 to 1987, and the men"s golf team at Georgia Southern University from 1977 to 1980.
Alexander became the head golf coach at his alma mater, Georgia Southern, in 1977, only two years after his graduation. In thirty-three years as a head coach, Alexander"s teams finished among the top ten in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament fifteen times.
His teams amassed seventy-two tournament victories, and thirty-one of his players earned All-American honors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recognized him seven times as its Coach of the Year (1986, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2004). As of 2010, Alexander had coached thirty-three future professional golfers as collegians, including eighteen at Florida. In 2005, Alexander was selected to coach the United States. national amateur team in Palmer Cup competition.
In 2013, Alexander"s Gator golfers finished fourth of fourteen teams in the Securities and Exchange Commission championship tournament in Sea Island, Georgia, and twenty-fifth of thirty invited teams at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament in Woodstock, Georgia.
Alexander was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from Georgia Southern University with bachelor"s degree in recreation in 1975, and again with a master"s degree in educational administration in 1980.
His father, Skip Alexander, was a former Duke University golf stand-out and Professional Golf Association Tour player. Alexander"s current wife, Joan, is a media official for the Professional Golf Association Tour.
Tyson turned pro in 2010.
