Head Coach

Robbie Fields | Women's Golf Head Coach

In the Summer of 2022, Jacksonville State hired Robbie Fields to lead its women's golf program, bringing in a leader that has had individual, team and academic success at the Division I level.

Fields became JSU's first Head Coach for Women's Golf after James Hobbs retired as the head coach for both the women's and men's teams after a 45-year Hall of Fame career.

During the 2023-24 season, the Gamecocks won their spring debut at the Advance Golf Partners Collegiate at Hammock Creek led by freshman Jinger Heath's medalist honors who carded a four-under 212 over 54 holes. Heath continued her success with three other Top 10 finishes which included winning the Golfweek National Golf Invitational with a 30-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the first playoff hole. As a team, the Gamecocks dropped their scoring average to 299.7 in 33 rounds.

In his first season with the Gamecocks, the team finished eighth at the ASUN Championship and had an average team score of 302.7. Individually, Claire Vermette posted 14 par or better rounds and tied for second on the individual leaderboard at the ASUN Tournament with a 54-hole total of 219. 

Fields came from East Carolina, where he has served as the Pirates' Women's Golf Assistant Coach for three seasons. He spent one season at Mississippi State before joining the staff at ECU.

While at ECU, Fields helped head coach CC Buford coach a team that won four times and fielded three all-conference players during his three seasons. Kathryn Carson was an All-American Athletic Conference performer in 2022 after conference champion Dorthea Forbrigd and Julie Boysen Hillested earned All-AAC accolades the year prior.

Field also saw his players succeed on a broader scale, with Carson and Riley Hamilton qualifying to compete in the 2021 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship.

He is a 2019 graduate of Mississippi State with a degree in Business Administration, Marketing with a concentration in PGA Golf Management and spent his final year in Starkville as a volunteer assistant with the Bulldogs women's golf team.

During that season, he helped MSU reach the Norman Regional, their first regional appearance since 2015. The Bulldogs finished tied for ninth (881, 17-over) narrowly missing making the NCAA Championship and closed out the season ranked No. 44 nationally.

Fields was also part of the MSU program that advanced to the match-play portion (quarterfinals) of the SEC Championship where they were eliminated by No. 11 South Carolina. While in Starkville, Miss., Fields also oversaw all practice sessions utilizing drills, on-course coaching, tournament travel/operations and assisted in recruiting visits.

Prior to his first collegiate coaching position, Fields worked at the late Hank Johnson's School of Golf in Birmingham, Ala., for eight months assisting Hank Johnson, the 2004 PGA Teacher-of-the-Year, with lessons, while providing individual instruction to junior and adult golfers as well as serving as a caddie for students in competitive events.

Fields has also worked as a PGA Golf Management Level 1 and 2 intern at the Sea Island Golf Performance Center (St. Simons Island, Ga.), Crooked Stick Golf Club (Carmel, Ind.) and Northern Texas PGA Section (Dallas, Texas).

The Hartselle, Ala. native, owns several PGA Golf Management certifications and was the recipient of the 2017 PGA Golf Management Joe Assell Leadership and the 2018 PGA Golf Management Dr. S. Roland Jones Student-of-the-Year Awards. He was also a member of the 2018 PGA Jones Cup Team.