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 eighth season at Wesleyan in the 2026-27 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 2024-25 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.
Wesleyan women's golf continued to improve in 2025-26, earning a Top 10 national ranking for the first time in team history while setting multiple team records in the process. The Cardinals shot a team record +9, totaling a record low 593 total strokes at the Polar Bear Shootout, finishing in second place out of 14 teams. At the 2026 NESCAC Championship, Wesleyan finished in fourth place out of eight teams, a new NESCAC Tournament-best for the program while the Cardinals shot a team record low round of 292 in round 2 action. Wesleyan's 31 birdies were the second-most of any NESCAC team in the field at the conference championship tournament. Amanda Phillips '28 went on to earn First Team All-NESCAC honors for the second straight year and competed at the NCAA Div. III Championship for the second time.
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.
