Bay Area native Rob Miller spent 15 seasons as the Santa Clara head men's golf coach.

Miller, who was hired in July 2005 and retired in May 2020, led the Broncos to 13 team tournament titles and the only two NCAA appearances in school history. Nine of his golfers earned All-West Coast Conference honors, including three tabbed as the league's top freshman, with some of them moved on to play professionally.

Among his other accomplishments were guiding Hayden Shieh to three NCAA Regional individual appearances, first-team All-WCC four times and 2014-15 league freshman of the year honors, and Matt McCarty to a pair of first-team all-league selections (2017-19).

Those two players, along with Derek Ackerman, a two-time honorable mention All-WCC performer (2017-19), helped steer the Broncos to the 2018 NCAA Championship. That season, the team was ranked No. 51 nationally by Golfstat.com heading into the regional at NC State where the Broncos finished 11th.

The Broncos helped reach the NCAA Regional by winning two regular-season events and finishing tied for third in the always competitive WCC Championships with Shieh and Ackerman each tying for ninth place.

One year earlier, the Broncos finished tied for fourth at the WCC Championship, led by Shieh who ended tied for first, losing in a playoff to BYU's Peter Kuest, after each ended 54 holes at 11-under 205.

At the end of the 2015-16 season, Shieh (third) and Michiel Eyre III (tied for fifth) were first-team All-WCC picks after finishing in the top 10 at the league championship. It marked the third time, and first since 2010-11, the Broncos placed at least two on the first team. Shieh and McCarty each earned that distinction in 2017-18. 

The 2013-14 campaign was one of Miller’s finest as he directed a young and talented group of players to a seventh-place or better finish seven times in 11 tournaments, capped by a second-place showing in the WCC Championship, the Broncos’ highest finish since winning the 1998 title.

The team earned a top-100 Golfstat.com ranking (96) with first-year player Tyler Kertson being named the WCC’s Freshman of the Year and senior Scott Lowe finishing his career with a third consecutive All-Academic Team selection.

In 2011, the Broncos reached a national ranking as high as No. 75. In 2010, junior Scott Travers was named the WCC Player of the Year, Rick Lamb was chosen as the league's top freshman and sophomore Cory Mehl qualified for the U.S. Open Sectionals for the second-straight time.

Miller made an immediate impact following his hiring, leading the men's team to a program-record four tournament titles in 2005-06, a national top-50 ranking, and the team's first-ever NCAA Regional appearance. Following the team's third-place finish at the league championships, Miller was named co-WCC Coach of the Year (along with Alex Galvan of LMU).

A member of the San Jose Country Club, Miller has been a golf enthusiast for the past 40 years, and qualified for the 2003 USGA Mid-Amateur. He also qualified for the 2016 U.S. Senior Amatuer Open.

His business background includes being the CFO of a prominent local company, as well as serving as a controller and commercial lender.

Miller earned a bachelor's degree in economics from UC Berkeley in 1977 and followed by receiving an MBA from UCLA in 1079. He and his wife, Brenda, have four children, including Matthew, who graduated from Santa Clara in 2005, and Christopher, who graduated in 2006.