Randy Syring joined the Kansas Wesleyan Golf program full-time starting on January 1, 2018. He was named head coach of the KWU Golf teams on June 15, 2017. He continues to assist the golf programs as a swing coach, while serving as Club Professional at Salina Country Club.
In 2018-19, the Coyotes had second place finishes in the Ottawa Fall Invitational and the KWU Fall Invitational, and won the KWU Spring Invitational at the Salina Country Club. Freshman Kristen Sayyalinh had six Top 10 finishes on the season, including winning the KWU Spring Invitational. The Coyotes finished seventh in the KCAC Championship race. Four were named as Academic All-KCAC and two Coyotes were named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
In his first season leading the Coyotes, KWU captured its first KCAC Women's Golf Championship since 2015. The team won the second leg of the KCAC race by a whopping 25 shots, and won the conference championship by 26 shots. Palmer Bosanko won the second leg individual title and shared the overall conference championship. The team made its first-ever team appearance in the NAIA National Championships and finished 27th. Bosanko, Tiara Diaz, Carina Hernandez and MacKenzie Fabrizius were named All-KCAC. Bosanko, Hernandez, Fabrizius and Torie Cox were named Academic All-KCAC; Cox and Fabrizius were named as Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes and Bosanko was named as a Google Cloud-CoSIDA Academic All-District selection.
Syring has been a Class A Head Golf Professional at the Salina Country Club since 1988. He served on the PGA Midwest Section Board of Directors from 1992 until 2000, serving as Section President in 1996 and 1997. He was named the 2004 Midwest PGA Golf Professional of the Year, the Midwest PGA Teacher of the Year in 1997 and 2002, the 1994 Midwest PGA Clubfitter of the Year and has been in the Titleist Top 100 Fitters since 2005.
Syring also has been named by Golf Digest as one of the top golf teachers in the state of Kansas and as one of Golf Magazine’s Best Teachers of the Great Plains. He has taught numerous professionals on the PGA TOUR, European Tour and Asian Tours, along with several state amateur champions, numerous collegiate players and high school state champions.
He played professionally on tours in Florida and California in the 1980s and was a member of the Marymount College golf team from 1976-1979.
