
Sean McCarty


- Turned Pro
- 1996
- Hometown
- Solon, Iowa
- College
- University of Iowa
PGA Club Professional
- PGA Membership
- 2007
- PGA Section
- Iowa
- Home Club
- Brown Deer Golf Club - Coralville, Iowa
- PGA Classification
- A-1, PGA Head Professional
Bio
PGA Head Golf Professional at Brown Deer Golf Club…Playing in his second straight Senior PGA Championship…Finished T-10 in the 2024 Senior PGA Professional Championship to earn a spot on the Corebridge Financial Team in the 2025 Senior PGA Championship at Congressional…Previously played in 11 PGA Professional Championships and the 2018 and 2022 PGA Championships…Helped the U.S. Team win the 2019 PGA Cup…13-time Iowa PGA Section Player of the Year (2007-09, 2011, 2013-15, 2017-22)…Six-time Iowa PGA Section Assistant of the Year (1999, 2002-06)…Winner, 2021, ‘12 Iowa PGA Professional Championship…Winner, 2022, ’21, ’19, ’17, ’10, ‘08, ’05, ‘01 Iowa PGA Section Match Play Championship…Winner, 2013, ’08, ’05, ’97 Iowa Open…Winner, 2023 Iowa PGA Senior Match Play Championship…Winner, 2025 PGA Senior Stroke Play Championship…Winner, 2024 Iowa PGA Deacon Palmer Award…Winner of more than 100 Iowa PGA Section championships…Also competed in the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields, Illinois…Posted 69s in the second round of both the 2018 PGA Championship and the 2003 U.S. Open, but missed both cuts…Has also played in over a dozen Korn Ferry and PGA Tour events over the past two decades…Inducted into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame in 2019…Member of 1992 Big Ten Conference Championship team at the University of Iowa, the lone men’s golf conference title team in school history...Named a collegiate golf All-American in 1995 alongside Stewart Cink (Georgia Tech) and Tiger Woods (Stanford)…Two-time First Team All-Big Ten honoree won four individual collegiate tournaments and led the Hawkeyes to eight team tournament titles…Became the first golfer inducted into the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016…Competed in the 1988 Junior PGA Championship…Three-time Iowa state high school individual and team champion at West Branch High School…Previously coached the golf team at Liberty High School in Iowa City.