Women's Golf
Katie Rudolph
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- kr3132@columbia.edu
- Phone:
- 212-854-4529
Katie Rudolph is in her third season as an assistant coach on the Columbia women's golf staff. She was hired in March of 2024 and has over 20 years of experience working in the sport of golf.
In her role, Rudolph assists with all aspects of the program, including swing instruction, indoor practice planning and assisting head coach Amy Weeks with all recruiting activities.
In her second season on staff, Rudolph helped coach the Lions to their first Ivy League Championship since 2007. The 2025-26 Lions set team 54-hole, team 36-hole, and team-round scoring records along the way. They won their first tournament in nearly a decade, capturing the More Than Golf Invitational at Old Barnwell in early March. Emily Zeng won the individual title, while Kristina Xu took home two individual titles in the fall.
At the Ivy League Championships, the Lions overcame a two-shot deficit with their best round of the tournament, defeating Harvard by seven shots to hoist the trophy at Baltusrol Golf Club. The Lions posted a winning score of 36-over-par 900. They shot the lowest team round of the tournament to win it on Sunday, carding an impressive 2-over-par 290. The Lions went on to be selected to the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, placing 10th.
Sophomores Sarah Shao and Christine Chang led the Lions to the title. Shao posted a final-round 3-over-par 75 to finish the tournament in solo third at 8 over par. Chang was the MVP of the day, carding five birdies on her way to a 3-under-par 69, the lowest round by any competitor at the 2026 Championship and tied for her best round of the season.
With two victories on the season, combined with setting a new single-season program record for stroke average, first-year Kristina Xu was named unanimous First Team All-Ivy League. Sophomore Sarah Shao and first-year Emily Zeng earned Second Team All-Ivy League honors.
Rudolph was the head men's and women's golf coach at NYU from 2021-23. Under her watch, the NYU men and women each won the Liberty League Championship in 2022 and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The women then repeated as champions and earned another NCAA bid in 2023.
Prior to becoming NYU’s head coach, Rudolph was the Chief Operating Officer for the First Tee of Metropolitan New York. At First Tee, for over a decade, Rudolph oversaw operations of the largest First Tee chapter in the United States and led all instruction and programming for 550 participants at the Newark, New Jersey facility.
Among her many accomplishments as an instructor and coach, Rudolph has been Megha Ganne’s private coach since 2012. Ganne finished as the low amateur at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open and is a five-time Augusta Women’s National Amateur competitor. Now a senior at Stanford, Ganne has many accolades that include the Curtis Cup, Jr. Solheim and Jr. Ryder Cup and most recently winning the US Amatuer.
Rudolph was a four-year standout at Wake Forest and a four-year recipient of the Rex H. Carter Golf Scholarship. She resides in New York City and the Berkshires of Massachusetts with her wife, Jen, and two dogs, Archie and Winnie.
In her role, Rudolph assists with all aspects of the program, including swing instruction, indoor practice planning and assisting head coach Amy Weeks with all recruiting activities.
In her second season on staff, Rudolph helped coach the Lions to their first Ivy League Championship since 2007. The 2025-26 Lions set team 54-hole, team 36-hole, and team-round scoring records along the way. They won their first tournament in nearly a decade, capturing the More Than Golf Invitational at Old Barnwell in early March. Emily Zeng won the individual title, while Kristina Xu took home two individual titles in the fall.
At the Ivy League Championships, the Lions overcame a two-shot deficit with their best round of the tournament, defeating Harvard by seven shots to hoist the trophy at Baltusrol Golf Club. The Lions posted a winning score of 36-over-par 900. They shot the lowest team round of the tournament to win it on Sunday, carding an impressive 2-over-par 290. The Lions went on to be selected to the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, placing 10th.
Sophomores Sarah Shao and Christine Chang led the Lions to the title. Shao posted a final-round 3-over-par 75 to finish the tournament in solo third at 8 over par. Chang was the MVP of the day, carding five birdies on her way to a 3-under-par 69, the lowest round by any competitor at the 2026 Championship and tied for her best round of the season.
With two victories on the season, combined with setting a new single-season program record for stroke average, first-year Kristina Xu was named unanimous First Team All-Ivy League. Sophomore Sarah Shao and first-year Emily Zeng earned Second Team All-Ivy League honors.
Rudolph was the head men's and women's golf coach at NYU from 2021-23. Under her watch, the NYU men and women each won the Liberty League Championship in 2022 and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The women then repeated as champions and earned another NCAA bid in 2023.
Prior to becoming NYU’s head coach, Rudolph was the Chief Operating Officer for the First Tee of Metropolitan New York. At First Tee, for over a decade, Rudolph oversaw operations of the largest First Tee chapter in the United States and led all instruction and programming for 550 participants at the Newark, New Jersey facility.
Among her many accomplishments as an instructor and coach, Rudolph has been Megha Ganne’s private coach since 2012. Ganne finished as the low amateur at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open and is a five-time Augusta Women’s National Amateur competitor. Now a senior at Stanford, Ganne has many accolades that include the Curtis Cup, Jr. Solheim and Jr. Ryder Cup and most recently winning the US Amatuer.
Rudolph was a four-year standout at Wake Forest and a four-year recipient of the Rex H. Carter Golf Scholarship. She resides in New York City and the Berkshires of Massachusetts with her wife, Jen, and two dogs, Archie and Winnie.
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