Rob Bennett

Biography

Rob Bennett was named the first head women’s golf coach at Abilene Christian University in July 2022 and enters his third season in 2025-26. He has led the program to a pair of runner-up performances at the Western Athletic Conference Championship through its first two seasons, including an individual conference title by Ryann Honea in 2024. Bennett has steered the Wildcats to a national ranking as high as No. 77 and established them as one of the premier teams in the WAC. In Year 2 with the Wildcats in 2024-25, Bennett guided the squad to its second runner-up showing at the WAC Championship in as many years. Honea, the highest-ranked golfer in the conference, battled her way to a second-place effort on the individual leaderboard. ACU notched five top-three finishes across the season, each of which came in its final seven tournaments. The Wildcats claimed victory at their first-ever home tournament, the West Texas Classic, and finished in second at the Riverbend Intercollegiate. Honea was named the Jersey Mike's A Sub Above WAC Women's Golfer of the Week for three consecutive tournaments and tallied six top-five performances over the course of the season. She won a share of the individual title at the BGSU Women's Intercollegiate before winning the West Texas Classic a week later. Honea recorded the lowest-scoring tournament in program history at the WAC Championship with a 6-under 210 effort. She was powered by a 5-under 67-second round, tying Jiyu Han for the lowest-scoring