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Martha Linscott

BIO

More about Coach Linscott...

  • Playing Experience: Linscott has played in 16 USGA championships

Coaching experience…

  • 2016-2020 / St. Teresa's Academy, Head Women's Golf Coach
  • Began at Park during Spring 2021 as Head Men's and Women's Golf Coach
Awards
  • 2x Heart Women's Golf Coach of the Year (2021, 2025)

MEN'S GOLF HIGHLIGHTS

  • In 2020-21 season, she led the Pirates to a 4th place finish at the Heart of America Athletic Conference Championship tournament.
  • In 2022, the Pirates had one men's golf Heart All-Conference golfer. 
  • In 2023, Linscott led Park to its first Heart Conference Tournament Championship and placed 24th at NAIA Nationals, its first national tournament appearance since restarting the men's golf program in 2017-18. Two Pirates earned Heart All-Conference and two PING All-Region golfers were awarded. During the 2023 campaign, Park received votes in the NAIA Top 25 poll and were No. 23 in the Bushnell/Golfweek NAIA Coaches' poll. In all, two team records and two individual Park all-time records were broken at the 2023 Heart Championship (lowest 18-hole team round, lowest 54-hole team tournament, lowest individual 18-hole round, lowest 54-hole individual tournament).
  • 2024, Park men's golf was runner-up in the Heart Conference Championship, despite being two strokes under their Heart Championship performance the year prior. The Pirates as a team recorded the lowest 54-hole tournament score of 847 at the Preserve Golf Course on Rathbun Lake in Morovia, Iowa for the conference finale. Guillermo Cervantes was the Heart individual medalist and qualified for the 2024 NAIA Men's Golf National Championship as an individual. Four Pirates were also selected to NAIA Ping All-Region.
  • 2025, it was a second consecutive season of being the Heart Conference runner-up. Santiago Valdes sets Park's record for low 36-hole tournament with a 137 and ties the 18-hole low with 65, all happened at the Baker Invitational at Eagle's Bend Golf Course in Lawrence, Kan.
     

WOMEN'S GOLF HIGHLIGHTS

  • In her opening season with the Pirates, the 2020-21 season, she led Park to the school's first Heart of America Athletic Conference Championship and qualified the squad for its first appearance at the NAIA Women's Golf National Championship since the 2008 season.
  • 2020-21 Heart Women's Golf Coach of the Year.
  • The women's golf team also secured four 2020-21 Heart Scholar-Athlete selections under Linscott's watch.
  • In 2022, the Pirates were second at the Heart Conference Championship. 
  • The 2022-23 season was marked by three first place finishes and three 2nd place finishes as a team. Laetitia Solombrino was named a Heart All-Conference performer for the third time in her career. She also closes out her time at Park as the single-season scoring average leader at a 78.04. 
  • The 2024 Pirates finished 3rd in the Heart Championship and finished the season with the 2nd lowest team scoring average in Park history.
  • In 2025, Park was receiving votes by the end of the season in the NAIA National top 25 coaches' poll. The 3rd place Pirates in the Heart Championship had the Heart Freshman of the Year in Anna Korsen and Coach Linscott was named Heart Co-Coach of the Year. 2024-25 was the lowest team scoring average in Park history,  Park had the lowest 18-hole team score and 36-hole team score in school history. Individually, Suhl and Korsen had the lowest season scoring average in school history, Suhl and Korsen tied for lowest 36-hole tournament, and Suhl earned the lowest 18-hole score in Park history. 
BIO

Martha Linscott enters her fifth season as head men’s and women’s golf coach at Park University after joining the program in March 2021. 

Linscott’s passion for competitive golf shown through in the summer of 2022 when she competed in the US Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, the US Women’s Senior Championship, and the US Women’s Senior Open Championship. Martha made the cut in two of these three events. In the past thirteen years Linscott has played in 16 USGA championships:10 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championships, 2 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championships, and 1 U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championships. Martha also won the Kansas Women’s Senior Amateur in 2020. She regularly competes in the Kansas Women’s Amateur Championship and the Kansas Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship along with playing in The Prairie Invitational.
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Linscott is a player who has figured out how to compete successfully. She credits your success to having a strong support system and mental outlook about the game. Linscott is eager to pass these traits onto her players and have them become the best version of themselves on and off the course. Martha’s players have earned 31 NAIA Scholar-Athlete awards and 24 Heart Scholar-Athlete awards. Altogether, Park has 30 Heart of America Golfers of the Week under Linscott's time at Park, 19 on the women's side and 11 for the men's program. In her first year of coaching, the women’s team won the 2021 Heart of America Athletic Conference Championship earning a trip to the NAIA National Championship in April 2021. She has continued to build the program in a positive direction including a trip to the 2023 NAIA Men's Golf National Championship Tournament after a Heart Conference Tournament Championship. Linscott also joined Park's individual qualifier to the 2024 NAIA Men's Golf National Championship Tournament Guillermo Cervantes.

A Kansas City native, Linscott played college golf at Missouri State University. She studied urban and regional planning at MSU before obtaining a master’s degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City in public administration. In addition to her coaching duties, Linscott is a Central Links Golf Association board member and a member of Indian Hills Country Club. Martha and her husband Randy have two grown children and their youngest daughter is currently swimming for the Air Force Academy. They reside in Mission Hills, Kansas.