The start of the 2021-22 season marks the 27th campaign for Daryl Landrum as the head coach of the Northern Kentucky men's golf program. He was the women's golf coach for 23 years.
Landrum helped guide Jacob Poore to a Horizon League Championship in 2018 and subsequent berth in the NCAA Columbus Regional. Poore ran away with the individual title, winning by five strokes. The following year in 2019, the men's team captured the runner-up title in the Horizon League Championship.
The women's team nearly captured Horizon League titles in both 2016 and 2017, but fell in the closing holes.
Landrum’s teams were a force at the Division II level, with the men's team qualifying for NCAA regional tournament play 14 years in a row. The women's team had a player or team qualify 10 of the final 11 years of the era.
As the coach of the Norse, his teams won eight Great Lakes Valley Conference championships, four Super Regional championships and had over 2,000 victories. Landrum has been named GLVC Coach of the Year nine times, including the 2011-12 season, and Regional Coach of the Year four times.
From 2001 to 2005, Landrum coached four-time All-American Kim Keyer-Scott, who qualified for the NCAA II Championships as an individual in her final three seasons at NKU.
In 2002, Landrum led the NKU women's team to the NCAA DII East Regional championship. The Norse advanced to the NCAA national championships at Allendale, Mich., where they finished third in the nation.
Landrum led the men's team to the NCAA Division II North Regional championship and a berth in the NCAA Division II championships in 2001. It marked the first time since 1996 NKU had advanced to the national finals.
Landrum, a 1976 graduate of Grant County High School, played three years of golf at Campbellsville (Ky.) College and earned NAIA All-District honors in 1978 and '79. He was twice named Campbellsville's most valuable golfer.
Landrum, a native of Crittenden, Ky., has been a member of the PGA for 28 years. He has won Junior Golf Leader for the state twice and was named Golf Professional of the Year for the Kentucky section in 2006.
With his wife, Becky Landrum, he launched the Seven-Up Junior Golf Tour in Northern Kentucky. The tour had over 2,500 participants in 20 years.
