Jim Ward

Entering 2020-21: 5th Year
Alma Mater: Indiana State ('79), WKU
Office Phone: 270-403-3591
E-mail: jrward@campbellsville.edu
Updated: June 2021

Jim Ward is entering his fourth season as head coach for the CU men's golf team. He was hired on Aug. 21, 2015 along with assistant coach Casey Young.

Ward took the Tigers to the NAIA Championships in 2021 after CU earned the Mid-South Conference Tournament Championship along with Justin Warman earning the Individual Conference Title. At nationals, the Tigers took fifth place as Ward will be stepping down and retiring after five seasons leading the men's golf program. He retires with the most tournament wins all time for a men's golf coach at Campbellsville with 13 after passing PJ Throckmorton's mark with the MSC Championship, where he was also named the Coach of the Year for the second-straight season.

Ward was named the Mid-South Conference Men's Golf Coach of the Year for the 2018-19 season prior to the MSC Championship. 

The Tigers played quality golf in 2018-19 by placing fourth in the 2018 Fall Invite by only five strokes and winning the 36-hole spring event just two weeks ago. Ward flipped the Tigers from being in the bottom half of the Mid-South Conference to a championship contending team in 2019 as they finished in second place as a team.

In 2017-18 season, the Tigers placed seventh in the MSC Fall Invitational and Spring Invitational and fifth in the championship. 

Ward is retired but has coached the Campbellsville High School boys golf team for the past three years.

Ward attended Terre Haute North High School in Terre Haute, Ind. and won the Indiana State Baseball Championship. He later went on to school with NBA Hall of Fame basketball player Larry Bird at Indiana State for his undergraduate degree. After receiving a double major in industrial education and Health & P.E., he went on to Western Kentucky to receive a masters degree in counseling.

Another tidbit on Ward, He also played in the Little League World Series (LLWS) in Williamsport, Pa. with North Terre Haute Little League in 1968. Ward's Indiana team was defeated by Virginia, which eventually went on to fall to Japan in the finals, 1-0.