David Lynn completed his 14th season of his second stint as the Oklahoma Christian head men’s golf coach following the 2024-25 season.
Lynn has been named the Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times, Heartland Conference Coach of the Year three times, Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year three times and the GCAA NCAA DII South Central Region Coach of the Year three times.
Since joining the LSC in the 2019-20 season, the program under Lynn has produced 20 All-Conference selections; 14 First Team honorees, four Second Team selections and two Honorable Mention recipients. Additionally, Lynn's program produced the 2024 and 2025 LSC Men's Golf Academic Athlete of the Year as well as the 2024 LSC Fred Jacoby Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year in Exequiel Rodriguez.
During Lynn’s two stints, he has guided the Eagles to 74 team tournament titles and 70 individual titles. Under his tutelage, 23 OC golfers have received NAIA, NCCAA or NCAA Division II All-America honors a total of 62 times, 10 Eagles have been named as NAIA or NCCAA Scholar-Athletes a total of 21 times and 14 players have been named as GCAA All-America Scholars a total of 23 times.
After a Runner-Up finish in the 2025 West/South Central Regional, the Eagles qualified for Medal Match Play at the NCAA Division II National Championships, reaching the National Quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season. Individually at the National Championships, Leandro Mihaich and Oskari Nikku became the first pair of OC teammates to be named PING GCAA First Team All-Americans in the NCAA era while Nikku made the All-Tournament team with a 10th-place finish.
In 2024, Lynn led the Eagles to their second straight Lone Star Conference Runner-Up finish and third consecutive NCAA Division II National Semifinals appearance in 2024. Capping off the 2024 season was four GCAA All-America selections and three Cobalt Golf Academic All-Americans.
Lynn, a 1995 OC graduate, has been a staple in the success of the OC golf program since 1998, when he started as an assistant coach. He became the Eagles’ head coach before the 1999-2000 season and guided the team until 2008, when he handed the reins to Kelsey Cline for two seasons.
In 2011, the Eagles capped Lynn’s first season back with the program’s second NAIA national championship and Lynn was named as the Golf Coaches Association of America’s NAIA Dave Williams National Coach of the Year. In the fall of 2012, he guided OC to the NCCAA national title, with the Eagles taking the crown by a whopping 52 shots, a performance that earned Lynn NCCAA national coach of the year honors.
In 2016, OC's first season of NCAA Division II postseason eligibility, he guided the Eagles to a runner-up finish in the West-South Central Super Regional and a berth in the Division II Championship, played in Denver. He was named by the GCAA as the South Central Region coach of the year as well as the Heartland Conference coach of the year.
He again won the Heartland and South Central Region coaching honors in 2019, guiding the Eagles to five wins -- including their first Heartland title -- a No. 1 spot in the NCAA's South Central Region ranking and a No. 9 spot in the Division II coaches' poll. OC finished eighth in the Super Regional.
The Eagles won the Lone Star Conference title for the 2020-21 season and made another Super Regional appearance. OC won four times during the 2021-22 season, qualified for the NCAA Division II Championship for the second time in program history and advanced all the way to the championship match before falling to Lee (Tenn.). The runner-up finish was at the time the highest ever by an OC team in any sport in NCAA competition.
OC strung together a run of 16 straight top-four finishes in national-tournament play (either the NAIA or NCCAA Championship), a streak that began in 2000 during Lynn’s first stint as the Eagles’ coach, and lasted through the 2015-16 campaign. Along with the NAIA national titles in 2009 (under Cline) and 2011, OC finished as the NAIA national runner-up in 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012 and as the NCAA Division II runner-up in 2022. In addition to the 2012 NCCAA title, OC was the NCCAA runner-up in 2014.
He’s a past president of the NAIA Men’s Golf Coaches Association (2007-2008) and served as the NAIA’s representative to the GCAA’s National Advisory Board from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2010 to 2012. From 2003-2005, he served as a rater for the SAC and NAIA Region 6 and from 2004-2007, he served as the chairman of the GCAA’s NAIA All-American Committee.
In 2008, he served as the men’s coach for the U.S. team in the World University Games in South Africa, and he was the U.S. co-coach in the event during the 2012 Games in the Czech Republic.
Lynn was inducted into the OC Athletic Hall of Fame in January 2014.
A native of Everett, Wash., Lynn was a NAIA Scholar-Athlete and four-year letterman in track and field at Oklahoma Christian. He received a master's degree in higher education from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2000. Lynn is married to Michelle (Hays) and the couple has a daughter, Mackenzie, and a son, Danny.
