Austin King enters his second season as a graduate assistant with the University of South Alabama men’s golf program.
He joined the staff prior to the start of the 2016-17 campaign after completing a four-year playing career at Western Kentucky, where as a senior he competed in nine events and recorded a pair of top-20 finishes. King helped the Hilltoppers win the team title at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate after tying for ninth in the individual standings with a 219 54-hole score that included a 70 in the opening round, while he carded back-to-back 74s en route to finishing tied for 15th at the Kenny Perry Invitational as WKU posted a fourth-place result as a team. His 68 paced the Toppers in the first of three rounds at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, and he also carded scores of 73 and 72 on the opening day of the Greenbrier Invitational as WKU would go on to come in third place.
King was in the Hilltoppers’ line-up at the Conference USA Championship each of his last two seasons, shooting a 72 on the first day his junior year. He played in a pair of tournaments as a sophomore — finishing among the top 30 in the individuals standings at both — with a low round of 70 that season at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate while tying for 15th place at the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular. In his only appearance as a freshman, King placed among the top 30 at the Memphis Intercollegiate.
A native, of Tyler, Texas, King helped Robert E. Lee High qualify for the 2010 state tournament. A regular member of the school’s ‘A’ team, his best finish was a second-place result at the district tournament.
King received his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky in 2016.
