Men's Golf
- Title:
- J. Stuart Francis '74 Head Coach of Men's Golf
- Email:
- golf@princeton.edu
- Alma Mater:
- Virginia '90
| 10 | Ivy League championships | 10 | NCAA Regional appearances | 8 | Ivy League individual champions | 45 | All-Ivy League honorees | 13 | All-America Scholars |
Will Green is in his 27th year as J. Stuart Francis '74 Head Coach of Men's Golf in 2025-26. He has led the Tigers to 10 Ivy titles and 10 NCAA appearances, including one individual NCAA bid.
Hired in the summer of 1999 to be the men's assistant, Green took over for Richard Hunt for the spring 2000 semester and immediately paid dividends.
Green's first Ivy title in 2000 was the program's first since 1995. He has since led the Tigers to Ivy crowns in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2019, 2023 and 2025, giving the program 32 league titles all-time. The 2023 title helped result in Green's first Ivy Coach of the Year honor, an award inaugurated in 2015. He was subsequently honored with Ivy Legue Coaching Staff of the Year honors alongside assistant Lou Stagner in 2025.
During his tenure, Green has coached 45 All-Ivy League honorees through the 2025 season, including the program's first Ivy League Player of the Year in Riccardo Fantinelli who has earned that honor in 2024 and 2025. He has also coached five golfers to Ivy League Rookie of the Year awards in Quinn Prchal (2013), Max Ting (2019), William Huang (2022), Riccardo Fantinelli (2023) and Charlie Palmer (2024).
Eight of Princeton's 16 individual Ivy champions since 1979 have also come during Green's tenure. Nathaniel Hoopes in 2000 won the individual crown in Green's first season, while James Milam followed in 2002, Jason Gerken two years later in 2004 and Creighton Page in 2005. Greg Jarmas returned a Tiger to the top of the Ivy leaderboard in 2013, followed two years later by Quinn Prchal. Riccardo Fantinelli became the third Princeton rookie to win Ivy medalist honors with his win in 2023, and he followed up with a second Ivy title in 2025.
Citing the program's classroom success, Green has coached 13 All-American Scholars, including Judd Pritchard '00, Peter McWhorter '01, Hoopes '03, Cassidy Traub '03, Page '05, Jason Gerken '06, Jesse Dixon '06, John Sawin '07, Bernie D'Amato '13 and Greg Jarmas '14, Jackson Fretty '24, William Huang '25 and Riccardo Fantinelli '26.
Green played golf sporadically growing up, but began playing more when he started his own business and undertook a professional golf career. He played regional mini-tour events throughout the country.
Green graduated from Virginia in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and communications studies.
