Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze may have stopped publicly posting his golf scores. However, it doesn’t seem like he’ll quit playing the game anytime soon.

Speaking to reporters at SEC media days in Atlanta Tuesday, Freeze was asked if he was tired of defending his regular play.

“I really haven’t had to defend it,” Freeze said. “I just, it’s something I enjoy doing.”

Freeze made headlines in June, by playing more golf than any other SEC head coach. He entered 11 scores that month into the USGA’s Global Handicap Index Network database.

The third-year Auburn coach stopped posting scores publicly immediately after the controversy began. He remains a 7.6 handicap, tops among SEC coaches, with South Carolina’s Shane Beamer sitting second with a 9.7.

Freeze has golfed consistently throughout his career. His practice came under fire when Auburn began losing recruits in its 2026 class, sometimes on the same day the coach would post scores to the database.

However, Freeze maintained that the two happenings weren’t related.

“I assure you, it does not take away from my time working to take Auburn back to the top of the college football world,” Freeze said.

Freeze first addressed the issue on David Pollack’s podcast, earlier in July.

This is that time where people are looking for things to write about,” Freeze said on episode of See Ball Get Ball. “And I do love golf. I enjoy playing, but what people don’t realize is, you know, I assure you that I never missed a camp day or a recruiting day but if camp got over at three o’clock one day, and Jill (Freeze) and I go out at 4:30, we absolutely might do that. And I’m not apologizing for that part of it. But my focus is 100% on getting Auburn in that win column this fall.”

SEC media days will continue through Thursday in Atlanta.