Hall of Fame
Scott Householder
1997 NCAA Div. II Golf Champion
Scott Householder has the distinction of being the only individual in the history of intercollegiate athletics at Cal State San Bernardino to win a national championship.
He accomplished that feat in 1997 while leading his team to a third-place finish in the NCAA Division II National Championship in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Scott shot rounds of 66, 70, 68 and 69 for his 15-under-par 273 to finish two strokes ahead of the field. His 72-hole score still stands as the national championship tournament record.
“The first round my putter was working great,” Scott told NCAA media after the tournament. “The last three rounds I was hitting a lot of greens, which kept me going.”
After his first-round 66 that gave him a share of the lead, Householder told the media: “The course was playing very fair and the greens were putting very true. I just played it hole-by-hole and didn’t get ahead of myself.”
Scott earned all-America first-team honors that year as well as all-District 8. He averaged 72.83 strokes per round during six rounds in the District 8 qualifiers..In 1996, he was an honorable mention on the all-America teams.
He first gained notice as a solid golfer in 1996 when he finished third at the NCAA West Regional with a 54-hole total of 215 and led the tournament after two rounds at 139, shooting 67 in the second round. He wound up 31st at the 1996 NCAA national championship as the team finished 11th.
In 1997, playing for Coach Fred Hanover, Scott won medalist honors at the Got Milk Bengal Invitational in Blackfoot, Idaho with rounds of 72, 70 and 67 for a 209, seven under par and the Coyotes team won the team title over such Division I schools as BYU, Cal State Northridge, Weber State and Gonzaga.
Scott helped the team win the District 8 golf championship and the St. Mary’s College tournament.
That, along with his impressive NCAA victory was a springboard for Householder into a brief career in professional golf and a subsequent career in the Palm Springs-Indio area operating a property management business. His CSUSB bachelor’s degree was in marketing and business management.
“Being able to play golf at a high level has created a lot of bridges for me,” Scott said.
But, he fondly recalls his days at CSUSB.
“I really enjoyed the guys on the team and Coach (Fred) Hanover. I was fortunate to have a coach like Fred for my last year there. We supported each other. We were a team going after goals together. If I was winning, everybody was happy about it. The same was true if it was somebody else.”
He is a 1990 graduate of Petaluma High School and played junior college golf at College of the Desert before coming to Cal State.
Scott and his wife, Sandra, and their two-year-old son, Joshua Caleb, live in Bermuda Dunes.
Coyote Athletics is proud to include Scott as one of the first five members of the Hall of Fame.
