Rob Bennett was named the first head women’s golf coach at Abilene Christian University in July 2022 and completed his third season in 2025-26 with Western Athletic Conference Co-Coach of the Year honors. He has led the program to runner-up performances at the WAC Championship in each of his three seasons, including an individual conference title by Ryann Honea in 2024. Bennett has coached six All-WAC honorees as ACU has amassed five tournament victories and 19 top-five placements. He has steered the Wildcats to a national ranking as high as No. 77, per Clippd, and established them as one of the premier teams in the WAC.

ACU continued its upward trajectory under Bennett in 2025-26 with four top-three performances. For the second year in a row, the Wildcats were victorious at the West Texas Classic at Abilene Country Club's North Course. They added second-place efforts at the WAC Championship and the The Lady Clerico while tying for third at the Red Raider Invitational. A program-best three Wildcats earned All-WAC accolades, with Honea and Maddi Kamas landing on the First Team and Jiyu Han receiving Second Team distinction.

Honea earned her third at-large bid to an NCAA Regional and delivered her best performance yet, tying for 15th at the Waco Regional. She registered seven top-six performances, including first place at The Lady Clerico and a tie for second at the PING ASU Invitational. Honea tied for fifth at the WAC Championship and placed outside the top 15 just once in 11 events. She was twice named the Jersey Mike's A Sub Above WAC Women's Golfer of the Week and added Women's Golfer of the Month honors in the fall. Kamas registered four top-10 performances in her first season with the Wildcats, including a runner-up showing at the WAC Championship. She was named WAC Women's Golfer of the Week after tying for third at the Coach Mo Classic.

In Year 2 with the Wildcats in 2024-25, Bennett guided the squad to its second runner-up showing at the WAC Championship in as many years. Honea, the highest-ranked golfer in the conference, battled her way to a second-place effort on the individual leaderboard. ACU notched five top-three finishes across the season, each of which came in its final seven tournaments. The Wildcats claimed victory at their first-ever home tournament, the West Texas Classic, and finished in second at the Riverbend Intercollegiate.

Honea was named the Jersey Mike's A Sub Above WAC Women's Golfer of the Week for three consecutive tournaments and tallied six top-five performances over the course of the season. She won a share of the individual title at the BGSU Women's Intercollegiate before winning the West Texas Classic a week later. Honea recorded the lowest-scoring tournament in program history at the WAC Championship with a 6-under 210 effort. She was powered by a 5-under 67-second round, tying Jiyu Han for the lowest-scoring round in program history. Han previously set the mark at the 2023 A-Ga-Ming Invitational.

Bennett found immediate success with the Wildcats, leading them to a title at the program's first-ever tournament in Sept. 2023, the A-Ga-Ming Invitational in Kewadin, Mich. It was the first of three championships for ACU over the course of its inaugural season, as it went on to win the HCU Huskies Intercollegiate in Sugar Land, Texas and the ORU Spring Invitational in Tulsa, Okla. The Wildcats added five more top-two finishes and finished outside of the top five in just one tournament. Runner-up ACU finished just two strokes back of Seattle U at the WAC Championship.

Bennett coached Honea to back-to-back individual crowns at the HCU Huskies Intercollegiate and the Lady Bison Classic in Panama City, Fla. before she won the WAC Championship to earn a spot in the NCAA Regional in Bryan, Texas. She received First Team All-WAC accolades, while Delaney Martin captured second-team recognition with five top-five performances and a title at the BGSU Women's Intercollegiate.

Off the course, four ACU golfers were named All-American Scholars by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA). Honea, Jiyu Han, Kate Pickrell and Sydney Williams held an overall grade point average of 3.5 or higher while competing in 50% or more of the Wildcats' competitive rounds. Those four, along with Martin and Manon Guille, garnered Academic All-WAC honors.

Bennett, a former assistant for the ACU men’s golf program, spent the 2021-2022 season as the assistant women’s golf coach at the University of Louisville. In his lone season at Louisville, Bennett helped the Cardinals to a program-best ranking of 24^th in the country, securing two team victories along the way at the Illini Invitational and Olde Stone Intercollegiate. Bennett played a key role in coaching senior Kendall Griffin throughout the season on her way to being named an All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection at the conclusion of the ACC Championship. The Cardinals also earned a bid to the NCAA Regional tournament, where they narrowly missed advancing to the NCAA National Championship. Bennett helped Louisville excel in the classroom as well, as four Cardinals earned WGCA Academic All-America honors.

Prior to his move to Louisville, Bennett was the assistant men’s golf coach at Abilene Christian from 2018 to 2021. In his three years in Abilene, he helped the Wildcats rise over 60 spots in the national rankings and set new school records for scoring average (288.86), low single-round score (19-under par) and low tournament score (44-under par). The Wildcats posted two tournament victories and eight other top-five finishes during Bennett’s tenure in Texas. Five Wildcats earned All-Conference honors during Bennett’s time at ACU and nine earned GCAA All-America Scholar honors.

Before heading to ACU, Bennett served as the head men's and women's golf coach at Seminole State College in Oklahoma for one semester in the spring of 2018. During that time, he coached two NJCAA Women’s National Championship qualifiers and one NJCAA Men’s National Championship qualifier. He also coached two Academic All-Americans at SSC and won the Mark Laesch Award given by the Golf Coaches Association of America to the coach and team that made the biggest improvement in stroke differential from the previous year.

Prior to Seminole State, Bennett spent four seasons as the head men's and women's coach at St. Gregory's University, where he led both teams to a combined four wins, five runner-up finishes, four third-place finishes and 13 other top-five finishes. He coached one men’s Ping All-Region player, one men’s Sooner Athletic Conference All-Conference player and the runner-up in the 2015-2016 SAC Women’s Freshman of the Year race. He also coached four individual champions and had one graduate play on the PGA Tour Canada. When Bennett began at St. Gregory's, the men were ranked 177th in the country and the women were ranked 134th. Over his four years at SGU, he was able to lead the men to a top ranking of 26th in the nation and the women to a top ranking of 48th.

A native of Stillwater, Okla., Bennett played collegiately at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, where he earned both his bachelor's degree in psychology and his master's degree in community counseling.

Bennett and his wife, Whitney, have been married since June 2012. They have two sons, Royce and Riggs, and a dog, Millie.

Name	Title	Email	Phone
Rob Bennett	Head Coach	rob.bennett@acu.edu
Jenni Roller	Assistant Coach	jsr26b@acu.edu

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus Red Raider Invitational on Sep 22, 2026

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus Mercedes-Benz Intercollegiate on Oct 4, 2026

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus Abilene Christian Intercollegiate on Oct 19, 2026

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus Grand Reservation Dominican Republic Classic on Jan 30, 2027

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus Moon Golf Invitational on Feb 14, 2027

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus West Texas Classic on Mar 1, 2027

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus PING ASU Invitational on Mar 25, 2027

Upcoming Event: Women's Golf versus "Mo" Morial Invitational on Apr 5, 2027

Results

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Boilermaker Classic on August 31, 2026 , , T-15th | +65 / 929

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus NCAA Waco Regional on May 11, 2026 , , Honea: T-15th Place

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus WAC Championship on April 20, 2026 , , 2nd of 7 Teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus "Mo" Morial Invitational on April 6, 2026 , , T-8th of 16 Teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus Coach Mo Classic on March 30, 2026 , , 8th of 16 Teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus PING ASU Invitational on March 23, 2026 , , 9th of 16 Teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus West Texas Classic on March 2, 2026 , , 1st of 16 Teams

Completed Event: Women's Golf versus UCF Challenge on January 25, 2026 , , 12th of 16 Teams

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