Central Michigan University Men's Golf

Kevin Jennings has built a solid foundation for the Central Michigan men’s golf program, resurrecting it in 2022-23 after a 37-year hiatus. A Benton Harbor, Mich. native, Jennings returned to his home state and delivered immediate results, guiding the Chippewas in 2023 to a sixth-place finish in the nine-team Mid-American Conference Championship, a solid finish for a first-year program featuring four freshmen starters. The Chippewas have excelled academically under Jennings, placing three student-athletes on the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team in each of the past two seasons. The program’s steady ascension under Jennings has continued, and the Chippewas came quickly out of the chute in the 2025-26 season at the Joe Feaganes Invitational in Huntington, W. Va., the first event of the year. It was there that the Chippewas set program 18-, 36- and 54-hole scoring records with scores of 279, 572 and 851, respectively. Keith Hunter led CMU with a 7-under par 206 – CMU records for aggregate score and score in relation to par -- at the Feaganes Invitational. He tied for fifth in the 93-player field. The Chippewas’ Philippe Yturralde set a program record for aggregate score when he fired a blistering 64 (6-under par) in the Chippewas’ second tournament of the 2025-26 season, the Earl Yestingmeier Invitational at Delaware Country Club in Muncie, Ind. Yturralde followed his 64 with a 68 and, combined with his opening-round 71, finished with a 7-under 203, tying Hunter’s Chippe