Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen - Men's Golf Coach

Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Mikkel_Bjerch1@baylor.edu
Phone:
254-848-5465

Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen is entering his third season with the Bears. After being hired as an assistant coach on May 14, 2020, he was promoted to associate head coach August 1, 2022. Bjerch-Andresen replaced Ryan Blagg, who took over as the head coach at Louisville after eight years as Baylor’s assistant, following the 2019-2020 season.

Bjerch-Andresen joined the Bears after spending three seasons as an assistant coach for Texas Tech men’s golf, including his last two years as associate head coach. In total, he has helped coach six All-Americans.

In 2021-22, his second season with the Bears, the four-time BU letterwinner (2012-15) helped guide Baylor to a win in the Bear Brawl, the program’s first event held in Waco since 2005. Under his direction, junior Johnny Keefer earned All-American honors from Golfweek and the Golf Coaches Association in addition to All-Big 12 and Big 12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades. Keefer also qualified as an individual for the NCAA Norman Regional, becoming just the second Bear to compete as an individual in the NCAA postseason.

In Mikkel’s first season as an assistant with the Bears, he helped the team to a second Big 12 Match play title in the second event of the 2020-21 season. The Bears followed that performance with a win at the Rice Invitational to open the spring semester. The win was highlighted by a final-round 275 to seal a six-shot victory over the University of Houston. Baylor’s Colin Kober and Johnny Keefer each shot under-par in the final round to share the individual title with a pair of 139’s. The Bears earned a 23rd-straight NCAA Tournament bid as a No. 7 seed in the Stillwater Regional.

A native of Baerum, Norway, Bjerch-Andresen has spent the last five years as a Division I assistant coach. Before joining the staff at Texas Tech, he broke into the coaching ranks by spending the 2016-17 season as assistant men’s and women’s golf coach at Stephen F. Austin.

In his three years at Texas Tech, Bjerch-Andresen coached five All-Americans. He helped lead the Red Raiders to a win at the 2019 Big 12 Match Play Championship. Texas Tech achieved the first No. 1 national ranking in program history during the COVID-19-shortened 2019-20 season, which included tournament titles at The Carmel Cup and Inverness Intercollegiate, in addition to the Big 12 title. Three different Tech players won individual titles during the season, and the Red Raiders finished the year ranked No. 3 nationally.

Bjerch-Andresen helped the Red Raiders to a third-place finish in the stroke-play portion of the 2018 NCAA Championship, advancing to eight-team match play for the second time in program history. In the quarterfinal match, Bjerch-Andresen walked with Adam Blomme, helping him erase a two-hole deficit to win 1-up and claim one point for Texas Tech in an eventual 3-2 loss to Alabama.

Bjerch-Andresen was a four-year letterwinner for the Bears from 2012 through 2015, playing his first three seasons under Greg Priest and his senior year under McGraw. He finished his career with a 73.79 scoring average, which ranked as the 10th-best mark in program history at the time. His 124 career rounds played were 11th-most in school history at the time of his graduation and currently ranks 13th on the all-time list.

As a senior in 2014-15, Bjerch-Andresen played as part of the Baylor lineup in all 12 tournaments and tied for third on the squad with a 73.19 scoring average across 36 rounds. He posted 15 rounds at par or better and had a pair of top-10 finishes, including winning medalist honors at the 2014 Royal Oaks Intercollegiate and a tie for fifth place to help the Bears win the team title at the Gopher Invitational.

Bjerch-Andresen graduated from Baylor in 2015 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in economics. He is married to the former Hannah Perry, who is also a Baylor graduate, and the couple has two sons Axel and Anders.