Steve Weir has put his stamp on the Cleveland State men’s golf program during his 19 years at the helm. During his tenure, the men’s squad has captured nine Horizon League titles and has made nine NCAA appearances.
A tireless recruiter, Weir has continually brought in highly-decorated players, including several all-state selections and student-athletes who have competed in and won prestigious tournaments.
In his 19 seasons at the helm, Weir has developed dozens of players who have garnered more than 30 All-Horizon League players, including Jake Scott, Michael Klaric, Andrew Bailey, and Anton Krecic who all earned medalist honors at the Horizon League Championships, while Bailey, Scott and Kent Monas were named Horizon League Players of the Year.
The 2018 season saw the Vikings capture their fifth consecutive Horizon League title, and league-leading 10th overall. Cleveland State took the lead for good on the second day of the tournament with a 292 and cruised to an 18-stroke victory.
Weir has also led the men’s squad to League titles and automatic bids to the NCAA Regionals in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Under Weir’s direction, a Viking has earned medalist honors 17 times, while the 2024-25 squad owns the program record for single-season scoring average at 292.4, and seven of the programs lowest team rounds have come during Weir’s tenure.
But Weir’s successes go beyond the course as the Vikings have also been successful in the classroom, with five players earning a spot on the Horizon League All-Academic Team. In addition, the men’s golf team was honored with the department’s Best of the Best Award at the John Konstantinos Athletic Academic Honors Luncheon in 2024, holding a 3.78 cumulative grade point average – the highest GPA in the department.
Weir joined the CSU golf staff as an assistant coach in 2007 with a familiarity to the Viking program, having served as an assistant coach to the men’s and women’s squads in 2006-07. He has also been the Assistant Golf Professional at Pine Hills Golf Club in Hinkley since April, 2007.
He had an outstanding collegiate career, spending time at Kent State and Baldwin-Wallace before enrolling at CSU in September of 2005.
In his lone golf season as a Viking, Weir earned first team All-Horizon League honors in 2006 and was a two-time Horizon League Golfer of the Week.
He was second on the team in stroke average (75.3), carding a school-record, eight-under-par 63 en route to a runner-up finish at the Belmont Intercollegiate. Weir also finished second at the Dayton Spring Invitational, helping the Vikings win the team title by eight shots.
Weir was a large factor in the Vikings claiming the 2006 Horizon League Championship and advancing to the NCAA regionals, shooting rounds of 70-72-74 (216) and finishing 11th overall.
In 2005, Weir captured the Greater Cleveland Amateur Championship and also advanced to the match play portion of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
At Baldwin-Wallace, Weir holds the best season average in school-history when he posted 75.2 strokes per round in the fall of 2003, including a low round of 70.
Weir and his wife, Alicia, have a daughter, Kinslee, and two sons Bryce and Parker.
