Jon Wilson, the first-ever head coach of the Wesleyan women's golf program, was elevated to Director of Golf in the summer of 2023. Wilson is in his seventh season at Wesleyan in the 2025-26 season, having first joined the Cardinals in 2019.
Since the founding of the women's golf program, the Cardinals saw an individual qualify for the NESCAC Championships in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons, before the league moved to a new model in 2025 where all teams qualify. In that 2025 NESCAC Championship, the Cardinals' first-ever team appearance was a successful one as Wesleyan finished in sixth place with Mia Holbrook '27 finishing as the runner-up on the player leaderboard while Wesleyan fired in the most birdies (30) of any team in the field. The Cardinals also shot 302 (+10) as a team in the third round of the NESCAC Championship, which was the lowest round of any team in any round in the tournament. The 2025-26 season also saw the team's first-ever All-NESCAC performers in Amanda Phillips '28 (First Team) and Holbrook (Second Team) while Phillips was also named All-Region and the first-year became the first Cardinal to qualify and compete in the NCAA Division III Championship.
Wilson has served as a PGA Class A Professional at Lyman Orchards since 2013, he's also served as an assistant women's golf coach at Yale University from 1983-87 and as the head coach of the Daniel Hand High School girls' team in Madison, Conn.
Additionally, Wilson has been the owner and director of the Sound Approach Golf Academy and Studio in Madison since 2004 and is the former PGA Head Golf Professional at Oronoque Country Club in Stratford, the Laurel View Country Club in Hamden, and the Alling Memorial Golf Course in New Haven. In 1999, he was named the National Golf Professional of the Year by the Arnold Palmer Golf Management Company.
