Greg Hutton has served as the CSUSM men’s head coach since the 2010-11 season and was named the women’s golf head coach in the summer of 2014.
Hutton's 2018-19 squad made CSUSM history by claiming the 2019 NCAA Division II National Runner-Up trophy in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on Saturday, May 18. Jaime Jacob became CSUSM's first NCAA Division II National Champion with a one-stroke victory after carding an even-par 219. Three Cougars were named to the 2019 Women's Golf Coaches of America (WGCA) All-America teams.
Hutton is CSUSM's first two-time CCAA Coach of the Year while Jacob repeated as CCAA Tournament Individual Champion and the Cougars collected their second consecutive CCAA Tournament Championship.
Hutton guided the 2017-18 women’s squad to the school’s first California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship win and he was also named CCAA Coach of the Year. Jacob was also CSUSM’s first-ever CCAA individual tournament champion. Jacob was named to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II At-Large third team.
In CSUSM’s first year of being a full-fledged member of the NCAA Division II in 2017-18, the Cougar men’s and women’s golf teams each qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships. The women’s team reached a No. 7 national ranking and No. 2 west regional ranking.
During the NAIA years, Hutton’s CSUSM squads won 13 tournament championships and his players have earned seven NAIA All-America selections. He’s been named West Region Coach of the Year by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) twice (2013, 2015), and 13 men’s players have been named GCAA All-West Region.
Hutton guided the men’s team to a pair of Association of Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) Conference Championships (2013, 2015) and mentored the first-ever individual conference medalists at CSUSM, Dylan Healey and Vanessa Chap.
The 2014-15 season was the first one where he took the reigns of both squads. He had four players – two women and two men – named to All-America teams and he combined to win four competitions between the teams. The Cougar men won the A.I.I. Conference title for the second time, posted the lowest scoring average (293.03) in program history and had two players named NAIA All-America. CSUSM was in the final group of the NAIA National Championship before finishing seventh.
The 2014-15 women’s team won the Embry-Riddle Fall Invite and placed in the top-three in three others. The team finished runner-up in the A.I.I. Championship and had two players named NAIA All-America. It was the first time the women’s team had a NAIA All-American since the 2008-09 campaign.
The 2013-14 men’s squad won three tournaments and went on to take 19th at the NAIA National Championships. Three players were named GCAA All-West Region.
In his third season as head men's golf coach in 2012-13, Hutton led the Cougars to their first-ever Association Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) Conference Championship, a third-place finish at the NAIA National Championships, and (at the time) the lowest scoring average in program history. In addition, CSUSM had three players named NAIA All-America; it was the first time a CSUSM player had been named All-America since 2007-08.
After the team's strong campaign, Hutton was named GCAA West Region Coach of the Year for the first time.
In 2011-12, the Cougars started the year off with a bang, taking home the California State Intercollegiate (Sept. 25-27, 2011) before winning the CSUSM Fall Invite (Nov. 7-8, 2011). The Cougars added a victory at the SMEE Builders Invitational (Mar. 4-6, 2013) and finished runners-up at the A.I.I. Conference Championships. After a year out of the national tournament, the Cougars earned an at-large berth to the NAIA National Championships, where they missed the cut by a single stroke.
During his first season of 2010-11, Hutton led the Cougars to three top-three finishes and a third-place finish in the A.I.I. Conference Championships.
From 2006-10, Hutton served as the head coach at Holy Names University in Oakland, Calif., transforming the small, private school into a national championship contender in the NAIA. In 2009-10, HNU won eight of its 15 events, including the Cal Pac Conference Championship, en route to finishing fifth at Nationals. Hutton's squad produced five All-Conference selections, the Conference Player of the Year and two All-Americans.
In 2006, Hutton led the team to a California Pacific Conference Championship in his first season as coach. The following season the squad finished second in the conference, and in 2008 Hutton led Holy Names to a 10th place finish at the National Championships and a No. 12 national ranking.
