9th Season as head coach
The 2021-22 season will be Greg Dillon’s ninth leading the Griffon Men’s and Women’s Golf programs. Six individuals and three teams have qualified for NCAA Regional as two players made the NCAA National Tournament under Dillon’s tutelage, including the most prolific season in Griffon Women’s Golf history in 2015-16.
AT MISSOURI WESTERN
Continuing to build off the success from the year before, Dillon led the women's team to back-to-back-to-back regional appearances. Individually, Chong Yong became the first Griffon to qualify for the NCAA National Tournament. On the men's program, Patrick McCarthy made history as he became the first freshman to qualify for the NCAA Regional as an individual. McCarthy also earned MIAA Freshman of the Year honors. Seven players from the men's and women's programs would be named All-MIAA under Dillon's guidance prior to year seven.
In his third year, Dillon led the women’s team to its first ever appearance in the NCAA Regional. A team playoff gave the group a third place finish at the regional and its first ever qualification for the NCAA Division II Championships in Aurora, Colorado. Shi Qing Ong was named MIAA Freshman of the Year along with being an All-Region selection. Ong was also a first team All-MIAA selection and joined Celine Lim (honorable mention) and Madison Rommue (honorable mention) on the All-MIAA team. Two Griffons, Corey Knight and Ryan Hand, were named All-MIAA on the men’s side.
In 2014-15, Dillon led individuals from both the men’s and women’s team to regional play for the first time in program history. Corey Knight advanced for the men’s team while Celine Lim made the central regional for the women as a freshman.
Dillon’s Griffon golfers have also seen success off the course, with 30 student-athletes named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll through his first three seasons.
BEFORE MISSOURI WESTERN
Dillon came to MWSU after four years at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
While at CSU-Pueblo, Dillon established one of the top women's golf programs in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. He also established himself as one of the top women's golf coaches in RMAC history.A three-time RMAC Coach of the Year, Dillon took the women's golf program from "worst to first," taking over a last place program in 2009 and systematically improving the program to conference champions and beyond.
His step-by-step process began in 2010 as the ThunderWolves had their first All-RMAC golfer in Rachel Means.
In 2011, CSU-Pueblo rose to 4th in the conference as RMAC Freshman of the Year Michaela Breit became the program's first ever golfer to qualify individually for the NCAA Division II Super Regional. In recognition of his team's performance in 2010-11, Dillon was named the RMAC Women's Golf Coach of the Year.
In year three, the "worst to first" journey was complete as the ThunderWolves caught fire at the end of the season, winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship and qualifying as a team for the NCAA Division II Super Regional. He again was named the RMAC Coach of the Year.
By 2013, his team won nearly every tournament, barely missing out on a second straight RMAC championship by finishing second to close the season and qualifying RMAC Golfer of the Year, Leina Kim, for the NCAA Division II National Championship as an individual, finishing in the top 40.
In addition to being the Women’s Golf Coach at CSUP, Dillon served as the Director of Instruction at Desert Hawk Golf Club in Pueblo. He is a member of the Professional Golfers Association of America as he has Class A-1 Certification and has received commendation from the PGA as a junior golf instructor.
Dillon has extensive experience in the golf industry as before returning to CSU-Pueblo, he served as a golf professional in a variety of locations, including Pueblo West, Colorado; New Port Ritchie, Florida and Cheyenne, Wyoming including being the Head Golf Professional and General Manager of the Shadow Hills Golf Club in Canon City, Colorado for 17 years.
He also has an extensive background as a player. Collegiately he’s an alum of CSUP and was a member of the ThunderWolves' golf team from 1975-78 and helped lead the team to the 1978 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship where he was an All-RMAC selection, as well as two NCAA Division II Regional appearances (1976, 1978). He currently competes in many PGA section events as well as other regional qualifiers.
Dillon and his wife, Janice, have two children: Tara and Hunter.
