1925, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006. They have twice placed second in the NCAA Championships: 1939, 1945. Luke Donald won the NCAA Individual Championship in 1999. He was Big Ten Conference Player of the year in 1999, and David Merkow was named the same in 2006. Donald was ranked number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 56 weeks in 2011 and 2012.
== People ==
=== Alumni ===
Northwestern's political alumni include U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Law school graduates include orator William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice and United Nations Ambassador Arthur Joseph Goldberg, Chicago Mayor Harold L. Washington, Governor of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, and Cincinnati mayor and tabloid host Jerry Springer.
The number of Northwestern alumni involved in theater, film, and television is also so large that the alumni have been dubbed the "Northwestern …
