After serving one year as Interim Head Coach in 2019-20, Derek Hamm was elevated to permanent mentor of both the Bulldogs' men's and women's golf programs in June of 2020.  Hamm joined the Barton staff in the summer of 2018 as an assistant coach for both programs.

Hamm was an assistant coach for the Bulldogs in 2018-19 after lettering four seasons for the men's golf program (2015-18).  Hamm won the 2015 Cutter Creek Invitational and earned three top-five finishes during his intercollegiate career.  Hamm led the Bulldogs to three consecutive runner-up finishes at the Conference Carolinas Championship:  two as a golfer (2017 and 2018) and one as an assistant coach (2019). 

Hamm, a native of Heath, Ohio, was named to the All-Conference Carolinas Third Team as a sophomore in 2016 and earned all-tournament honors in the league championship as a freshman in 2015.  Hamm also won the team's Reid Hill Sportsmanship Award in 2014-15 and was named the team MVP in 2015-16.

Hamm, a 2018 summa cum laude graduate of Barton College with a bachelor's degree in business administration, was a two-time All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).  Hamm also received his MBA from Barton in May of 2020.