Brian Booher serves as head coach for both programs and now holds more than a decade of experience at Otterbein, coming aboard in 2013 to lead the women before also assuming the helm of the men's program shortly thereafter.
A 3x OAC Coach of the Year recipient on the women's side, Booher has kept the Cardinals competing for a league title every year since joining the fold in fall of 2013. Since that inaugural season, Booher has led the team to three Ohio Athletic Conference titles (2015, 2022, 2023) and subsequent berths in the NCAA Championships, with many other narrow runner-up finishes in the league.
He has also helped the women's program collect four individual medalist winners at the OAC Championships in Marie McGinnis (2014), Bailey Pontius (2015), Ann Jobko (2017) and Lyndsay Blum (2022).
Booher also took over as head coach of the men's golf program in the summer of 2014 and has continued to add to the program's historic success. Having guided the group to seven of the last eight OAC Championships, Booher has boosted the program's OAC title count to 24 over the last 32 years (* no event in 2020 due to COVID). He is a 7x OAC Coach of the Year on the men's side (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024) and keeps the Cardinals a known competitor across the Division III national landscape.
He has helped guide four of the past six OAC individual champions in Kurt Fortman (2018), Sam Marty (2019), Coury Rogers (2021) and Ian Johnston (2024).
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Prior to coming to Otterbein, Booher served as men’s and women’s assistant golf coach at Ohio Dominican University from 2011-2013 and spent 11 years as head professional at Granville Golf Course from (2000-10).
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He spent 11 seasons at Granville High School coaching boy’s golf from 2000 to 2010. Booher spent his first three years as an assistant before moving into the head coaching position in 2003. As head coach, he took the Blue Aces to five top-10 finishes at the state championships, placing as high as third. His teams won eight sectional titles, and district championships in 2005 and 2008. He was named coach of the year four times in the Mid-State League and twice in the Central District.
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He received his bachelor’s degree in professional golf management from Penn State University in 1997 and his master’s in education within sport management from Ashland University in 2014. In addition to his off the course qualifications, Booher has 18 years of experience as a PGA Pro.
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Booher and his wife (Laurie) have three children - Ethan, Maggie and Emma - and reside in Pataskala.
