Kendall Griffin - Women's Golf Coach

Kendall Griffin

Title:
Assistant Women's Golf Coach
Email:
kgriffin@athletics.msstate.edu

Kendall Griffin was named the newest women's golf assistant coach on June 21, 2024.

Griffin comes to Starkville after spending the last two seasons as the assistant coach at Indiana University. While in Bloomington, Griffin helped the Hoosiers’ women’s golf program to a Big Ten Championship in 2024, the team’s first Big Ten title in over 30 years, while erasing an 11-stroke deficit in the final round of play. Following their Big Ten title, the Hoosiers advanced to the NCAA East Lansing Regional, marking the first NCAA postseason tournament for the program since 2019.

In her first season at Indiana, Griffin helped oversee steady improvements from the team, with five top-10 team finishes, including a season-best sixth-place finish at the Olde Stone Intercollegiate and the Reynolds Laker Occonee Invitational.

Before entering the coaching ranks, Griffin had an impressive collegiate golfing career at both Louisville and LSU while also earning a spot at the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Griffin wrapped up her five-year collegiate career at the University of Louisville during the 2021-22 season. As a graduate transfer from LSU, Griffin was one of two players to compete in all 30 rounds for the Cardinals. She posted a team-best average score of 72.86 strokes per round and was named All-ACC first team. She played 13 total rounds at par or better, including a team-best five rounds in the 60s. She was named the Academic All-ACC in her lone season in Louisville.

Before joining Louisville as a graduate student, Griffin played four seasons for the LSU Tigers. She played 104 rounds in Baton Rouge with a stroke average of 75.27 shots per round. She played 24 rounds at par or better and was named a WGCA All-American Scholar all four seasons.

In total, Griffin played 134 collegiate rounds with a stroke average of 74.73, with 15 finished inside the top 20, including two in NCAA Regional play.

A native of Sebring, Fla., Griffin played her high school golf at Abeka Academy and finished inside the top 5 at the state tournament in each of her four seasons. She won the 2016 Florida High School Athletic Association Class 2A State Tournament and was named a 2016 AJGA Rolex All-American.

Griffin also claimed victories in the 2019 and 2021 Florida Women’s Amateur events. She graduated from LSU with a marketing degree and earned her master’s degree in sports administration from Louisville.