Coach Smith is entering his fifth season as Webster University's golf coach in 2025-26. In his first two seasons, he led the Gorloks to successful runs, earning a spot in the NCAA Division III Championship by winning the 2022 and 2023 SLIAC Championships, which secured automatic bids.
Smith serves as the U.S.-based Managing Partner for Fenix Apparel & Accessories, a custom apparel and accessories company headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Fenix, which has been expanding since its founding in 2008, specializing in private label polos, pullovers, and hoodies. Smith has served in various roles within the company since 2010 when he first represented the brand as a playing ambassador on the Asian Tour after becoming a professional golfer. In the US, the company operates nationwide, partnering with Fortune 500 companies, collegiate athletic departments across all divisions, and several professional sports teams in major sports and racing leagues.
Smith is also the co-founder of FLYT Golf, a Kansas City-based company specializing in golf training aids. His original invention, the FLYT Chipping Sleeve, helps golfers improve their chipping and pitching technique by reducing excessive hand and arm movement, promoting proper body rotation.
Before founding FLYT Golf, Smith competed as a touring professional golfer from 2008 to 2017, playing on tours such as the Asian, Australian, DP World, Korn Ferry, and Latin American Tours. In 2015, he served as the Director of Instruction at Eagle’s Landing Country Club in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Smith was a two-time NJCAA All-American at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa. He won five individual titles during his time there, including the 2006 NJCAA Championship, where he tied the course and championship record with a 10-under-par 62 in the second round. Smith went on to win the championship in a playoff after tying the 72-hole scoring record with Brady Jones.
Smith later transferred to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he lettered in both seasons. He was named Conference USA Newcomer of the Year in 2006-07 and earned First-Team All-Conference USA and Academic All-Conference USA honors as a senior in 2007-08. He also finished runner-up in the Conference USA Championship and won the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate.
As an amateur, Smith's highlights included a second-place finish in the 2004 Australian Amateur Strokeplay Championship. He was named to the All-Australian High School Golf Team in 2001 during his senior year at Scotch College.
Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Management from UAB (2008) and an Associate of Arts from Indian Hills (2006). He resides with his wife Whitney and their two children, Bronson and Kennedy.
