The 2011-12 academic year will mark the second year for long-time New England PGA golf professional as head golf coach at Bentley University.

Herron's first season at the helm was highlighted by a marked improvement in overall scoring. The team's total stroke average was 1.3 strokes better than the prior season (79.5 as compared to 80.8), and it marked the first time in Bentley history that the golf team had five players average in the 70s for the entire season.

In 13 tournaments over the course of the season, Herron led his squad to ten top-five finishes, with the average size of those tournaments 14 colleges per event. Included were a pair of second-place finishes.

Ranked eighth in the East Region, Bentley was selected for the NCAA Division II East/Atlantic Super Regional, which was held in Hershey, Pa.  His first season also included Bentley's frist spring break golf trip (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) and a spring break tournament in Ocean City, Md.

Following the season, Herron announced that Pine Brook Country Club in Weston had been secured as the team's home practice facility for 2011-12.

Herron, who earned to PGA membership in 1982, is the former Director of Golf at Ferncroft Country Club (Danvers), Gleneagles Country Club (Delray Beach, Fla.) and at three facilities on Cape Cod:  Hyannis Golf Club (Hyannis),  Sandwich Hollows Golf Club (Sandwich) and Bay Pointe Country Club (Onset Beach).

In addition to his coaching duties, Herron serves as the Tournament Manager for both the Cape Cod and Rhode Island chapters within the NEPGA. He holds active membership in the Golf Coaches Association of America and has been named to the executive committee of the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association in only his first season as a golf coach. The NEIGA runs the largest collegiate golf tournament in the nation each fall with upwards of 45 colleges and universities, from all three divisions, participating in the multi-day tourney at the Captains Golf Club on Cape Cod. In October 2010, Bentley was 13th overall at the New Englands.

Herron also serves as a rules official for the NEPGA Junior Tour and as a professional scorer for the CVS Charity Classic, held each year at the Rhode Island CC and hosted by Brad Faxon and Billy Andrade.

Active for years in the Cape Cod PGA and New England PGA, Herron was awarded the 2007 NEPGA Bill Strausbaugh Award and the 2006 CCPGA Professional of the Year.  Former president of the CCPGA and vice president of NEPGA, he has served on several NEPGA committees, notably the tournament committee and chair of the public relations committee.  He also has been chair of interviewing committees for the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund – a Massachusetts based financial assistance organization which aids college bound youth who work in the golf industry in the commonwealth.

Herron has the won the Dutch Wessner Award seven times – emblematic of player of the year within the Cape Cod PGA region.  He has played in three PGA Tour events, six National Club Professional championships and three Senior National Club Pro championships.  He won the 2008 Martha’s Vineyard Open and the 2002 Sankaty Head Boys & Girls Club Championship, finished second in the inaugural Cape Cod Open and has won six Cape Cod PGA Stroke Play championships.   Herron lost in a playoff in 2008 in the NEPGA Senior Championship to Jim Sheerin of the Abenaqui Golf Club in New Hampshire.

Herron played for both the Macalester College golf team (NAIA) and the University of Pennsylvania golf team (Div I) in the mid-70’s. He captained his high school golf team (The Hill School) in 1970-71 and qualified for the USGA Junior Championship in 1970.