Whittier College golf coach Richard Kim '93 was featured in the Whittier Daily News. Kim guided the Poets from the "doormat" of the NCAA Division III ranks (268th place) to a finish in the top 25 percent of all D-III schools (68th place) in 2009.
Kim's transformation of the golf program began in September of 2007, and in the article he states that the Poets are one or two players from being "really, really good."