Austin Cody was hired as assistant coach for Vanderbilt men’s golf in June of 2023.
During Cody’s time in the Music City, he has helped the Commodores sign the No. 1-ranked recruiting class in 2024 and 2025. Vanderbilt has won seven team titles with Cody as an assistant coach, while a total of six Commodores have earned All-American honors in his tenure. The Dores have advanced to the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships in each season Cody has been with the program, and was on staff when Vanderbilt advanced to match play at the 2024 NCAA Championships after the team posted a second-place finish in stroke play.
In 2024-25, Cody aided in the Commodores making their 11th-straight NCAA Championship appearance. Vanderbilt had three golfers win four individual titles in Cody’s second season with the Dores. He also played a key role in the development of Ryan Downes, as the then-freshman tied the Vanderbilt men’s golf record for lowest 18-hole score with a 10-under; 61 in Round 1 at the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship. Vanderbilt’s 2024-25 team score of 283.68 is the 10th-best single season scoring average in school history. Jackson Van Paris earned All-SEC second team and All-America second team honors during Cody’s second season.
In his first season with the Commodores in 2023-24, Cody assisted in Vanderbilt winning seven team titles, which is tied for the second-most in program history. Four Dores earned individual medalist honors during Cody’s first season, highlighted by William Moll’s victory at the 2024 NCAA West Lafayette Regional, where he became the first Commodore to win an NCAA Regional event. Cody aided in Vandy advancing to the championship match at the 2024 SEC Championships. Matthew Riedel, Gordon Sargent and Cole Sherwood earned All-American and All-SEC first team honors during Cody’s first season, while Sherwood was named the 2023-24 SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Cody joined the Commodore program after serving as an assistant coach at Ole Miss from 2020-24, where he helped the Rebels to an NCAA Regional appearance each spring.
In his final season at Ole Miss, Cody’s efforts aided the Rebels in winning the All-American Intercollegiate, while recording a runner-up finish at the Cabo Collegiate. Mississippi advanced to match play at the 2023 SEC Championships and earn a berth in the field of the NCAA Norman Regional. Not only was it the first time since 2017 that Ole Miss moved on to match play at the SEC Championships, the Rebels set a then-program record for low round after posting a 268 total at the 2022 SEC Fall Match Play Championship.
In addition to ending the campaign among the top 25 in GolfStat’s final team ratings, he helped Huso Townsend earn a spot on the PING All-Southeast Region team while four different student-athletes earned SEC weekly honors.
Cody’s first season with the program saw Ole Miss record two of the top 10 rounds in the school’s record books on the way to a berth in the NCAA Stillwater Regional as Jackson Suber earned All-America and All-SEC honors after earning two individual victories. His efforts helped Suber pick up multiple All-America honors the following season as the Rebels finished 14th—the second-best result in program history—at the NCAA Championships after qualifying for the event for the first time since the 2016-17 campaign.
Prior to his arrival in Oxford, Cody was on the staff three seasons at UAB including serving as associate head coach in 2019-20. The Blazers placed first in stroke play and advanced to the final match at the Conference USA Championships his first season with the program, and would win two tournament titles the following campaign. Cody’s efforts helped UAB reach the top 25 in the national rankings for the first time in six years his final season at the school.
A four-year letterwinner at Duke from 2010-14, Cody recorded 14 top-20 results while shooting better than par on 22 occasions. As a freshman, he went 3-0-1 to help the Blue Devils claim the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship as they would place second at the ACC Championships before advancing to the semifinals of match play at the NCAA Championships. Cody also was part of a Duke squad that won the title at the ACC Championships when he was a junior.
A member of the ACC All-Academic team on three occasions, Cody earned his sociology degree from Duke in 2014 while also minoring in markets and management studies. He was named Lowcountry Golf of the Year four times, selected the region player of the year five straight seasons and received all-state recognition on seven occasions while a member of the team at Pinewood Preparatory School, winning 18 tournaments as a junior golfer highlighted by a pair of South Carolina Golf Association championships.