A familiar face in OC golf circles, Greg Lynn is the only head coach in the history of Oklahoma Christian’s women’s golf program, which will enter its 11th season of competition in 2021-22.
The Eagles have enjoyed much success during the program’s first six years, quickly achieving an NAIA national ranking in the spring of 2012 and finishing sixth nationally as Lynn was named as the Sooner Athletic Conference coach of the year. OC finished as the NCCAA runner-up in the fall of 2012 in its first year as a member of that organization and was third in 2013 and 2014.
Since OC joined the Heartland Conference with the 2012-13 academic year, the Eagles have often beaten teams in the NCAA Division II rankings. In 2015, the Eagles posted the unofficial low team score in their inaugural appearance at the Heartland Conference Championship and during the season had beaten six of the 12 teams that qualified for the Division II Championship.
In 2016, OC's first season of eligibility for the NCAA postseason, the Eagles received one of 12 bids to the Division II West Super Regional, an impressive accomplishment for a new NCAA program. OC senior Audrey Meisch qualified as an individual for the Division II Championship in Aurora, Colo. In 2017, freshman Abigail Rigsby gave OC another individual qualifier for the Division II tournament.
Kate Goodwin won the West Super Regional individual title in 2018, earning a spot in the national tournament, and she helped lead the Eagles to their first team berth in the Division II event in 2019. In 2021, another of Lynn's players, freshman Camilla Jarvela, also qualified as an individual for the national tournament.
In 11 seasons, five OC players have combined to earn NAIA or NCCAA All-America honors nine times, two players were named as NCCAA Scholar-Athletes in both 2012 and 2014 and eight players have been named as WGCA All-America Scholar-Athletes a total of 25 times. Five OC golfers have combined to win 21 individual tournament titles under Lynn and the Eagles have won 13 tournament titles.
Before taking the reins of the Eagles, Lynn was an assistant coach for OC’s men's program for 12 seasons and was instrumental in helping that program finish in the top four at the NAIA Championships each of those years. He was on the staff for both of OC’s NAIA national championships, in 2009 and 2011. Lynn's duties as an assistant coach included day-to-day instruction, fundraising, tournament travel and tournament operations. Lynn also was the head coach of the men’s junior varsity golf team for nine years.
During his tenure as an assistant, Lynn worked with 18 All-America men’s players at OC, including some who went on to play in prestigious amateur tournaments including the U.S. Amateur, the British Amateur and the Australian Amateur.
Lynn still plays competitively and qualified for the 2011 U.S. Senior Amateur in Manakin-Sabot, Va. During the summers of 2013, 2014 and 2015, he played in the prestigious Trans-Mississippi Senior Championship. He has been a scratch handicap golfer for more than 30 years and has won numerous individual and team tournaments.
Lynn is a native of Everett, Wash., and retired from the commercial cabinet industry in 1999. He and his wife, Laurel, have three grown sons -- David, a 1995 OC graduate and the university’s current athletic director, men’s golf coach and director of golf; Michael, a 1998 OC graduate; and Jonathan. The Lynns also have five grandchildren.
