Arizona Golf Arizona Quick Facts Table of Contents General Information General Information Location . Tucson, Ariz. Quick Facts/Table of Contents . 1 Founded . 1885 2011-12 Roster . 2 Enrollment . 38,800 Q&A with Head Coach Rick LaRose . 3 Nickname . Wildcats School Colors . Cardinal & Navy Player Biographies National Affiliation . NCAA Division I-A Philip Bagdade . 4 Conference . Pac-12 Kenji Hernandez . 5 President . Dr. Eugene Sander Juan Pablo Hernandez/Nick Olsgaard . 6 Faculty Representative . Jory Hancock Trent Redfern . 7 Athletic Director . Greg Byrne Ben Esparza/Parker Houston . 8 Athletic Web Site . www.arizonawildcats.com Benson Liu/Erik Oja . 9 Athletic Dept. Phone . (520) 621-4622 Chris Capo/Dylan Kornberg . 10 Ticket Office Phone . (520) 621-2287 Ricky Lee/Alex McMahon/Brenden Redfern/Tucker Wadkins . 11 Coaching Staff Coaching Staff Director of Golf/Head Coach . Rick LaRose Head Coach Rick LaRose . 12-13 Years at Arizona . 39 Assistant Coach Andy Barnes . 14 Office Phone . (520) 621-4658 Assistant Coach . .Andy Barnes 2010-11 In Review Office Phone . (520) 621-7052 2010-11 Tournament Results/Statistics . 15 Home Facility . Arizona National Tournament Summaries . 16-17 Par/Yardage . 71/6,793 Letterwinners Returning/Lost . 11/6 History 2011 Pac-10 Finish . 7th Team Scoring Records . 18 2011 West Regional Finish . T4th Individual Scoring Records . 19-20 2011 NCAA Finish . 29th Year-By-Year Results/Team Championships . 21 Final Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index Rank . 64th Individual Championships/Individual Honors . 22 Academic Honors . 23 Media Relations Alumni Playing Professionally/1992 National Championship . 24 Associate SID/Golf Contact . Richard Paige Office Phone . (520) 621-4163 The University of Arizona Cell Phone . (520) 850-2118 Tucson/University of Arizona . 25 Paige E-mail . [email protected] University Administrators . 26 SID Student Assistant . Katie Roberts Pac-12 Conference . 26 FAX . (520) 621-2681 2012 NCAA Championships 2010-11 In Review Date Event Finish The University of Arizona men’s golf FALL team seeks its 28th appearance, and Sept. 10-11 at Topy Cup 6th of 10 Teams 24th in the last 26 seasons, at the 2012 Oct. 1-2 at William H. Tucker Intercollegiate 8th of 16 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships. Oct. 24-26 at Isleworth Collegiate Invitational 15th of 15 The 2012 NCAA Championships will Nov. 8-10 at Gifford Collegiate Championship 10th of 12 be held May 29-June 3 at Riviera SPRING Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., Jan. 31-Feb. 2 ARIZONA INTERCOLLEGIATE T5th of 16 and hosted by USC. Riviera Country Feb. 7-8 Anteater Invitational 1st of 11 Club is a par 71, 7,279-yard layout. It Feb. 16-18 at John A. Burns Intercollegiate 8th of 17 marks the first time the legendary March 11-13 at Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters 15th of 15 facility, which opened in 1927, has March 21-22 NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT 3rd of 15 hosted the NCAA Championships. March 24-25 at Barona Collegiate Cup 5th of 16 The top five teams and one individual from each of six regionals – April 2 DUAL MATCH VS. BROWN W, 281-313 Greenboro, N.C., Athens, Ga., Ann Arbor, Mich., Bowling Green, April 4-5 at Wyoming Cowboy Classic 2nd of 20 Ky., Norman, Okla., and Palo Alto, Calif. – will qualify for the April 29-May 1 at Pacific-10 Championships 7th of 10 championship event. Arizona, which has posted 10 top-10 NCAA May 19-21 NCAA ARIZONA REGIONAL T4th of 14 Championship finishes since 1988, has earned a postseason berth May 31-June 5 at NCAA Championships 29th of 30 in 22 of 23 seasons since the regionals were instituted in 1989. Top Returning Players (2010-11 statistics): Top Low Credits: The 2011-12 Arizona Men’s Golf Media Guide is a product of Events Rnds Avg. 10/20 Round the University of Arizona Athletic Media Relations Office. The publica- Nick Olsgaard 5 12 74.00 0/0 69 tion was written, designed and edited by Richard Paige with assistance from Katie Roberts, Danny Martinez and Kelsee Levey. Research Tye Beall 11 30 74.17 0/2 69 contributions by Rick LaRose and Joe Mazzeo. Photography by Luke Erik Oja 14 41 74.24 1/3 67 Adams, Arizona Athletics Photography; UA Photo Services; Matt Juan Pablo Hernandez 12 34 75.00 1/2 69 Barton; twoguyswhogolf.com; the PGA Tour, and the United States Kenji Hernandez 3 7 75.86 0/0 70 Golf Association. © 2012 by the University of Arizona department of Trent Redfern 7 21 76.57 0/0 70 athletics. 1 2011-12 University of Arizona Men’s Golf 2011-12 Roster 2011-12 Arizona Men’s Golf Roster Name Swing Ht. Wt. Cl.-Exp. Hometown/Previous School Philip Bagdade R 6-2 197 Sr.-3L Eugene, Ore./Sheldon H.S. Tye Beall R 5-7 159 So.-1L El Paso, Texas/Hanks H.S. Chris Capo R 6-2 225 So.-TR Woodland Hills, Calif./Pepperdine Ben Esparza R 5-9 187 So.-1L Tucson, Ariz./Ironwood Ridge H.S. Juan Pablo Hernandez R 5-10 152 Jr.-2L Mexico City, Mexico/Irish Institute Kenji Hernandez R 5-11 174 Sr.-3L Atizapan, Mexico/ITESM Parker Houston R 6-6 182 So.-1L San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic H.S. Sean Jones R 6-0 165 So.-1L Chicago, Ill./William Fremd H.S. Dylan Kornberg R 5-10 130 Fr.-HS Tucson, Ariz./Catalina Foothills H.S. Ricky Lee R 5-8 161 Fr.-HS Tucson, Ariz./Salpointe Catholic H.S. Benson Liu R 5-10 156 So.-1L Taipei, Taiwan/Xisong Senior H.S. Alex McMahon R 5-10 145 Fr.-HS Oro Valley, Ariz./Ironwood Ridge H.S. Erik Oja R 6-3 174 So.-1L Sandviken, Sweden/Göransson H.S. Nick Olsgaard R 6-1 178 Jr.1L Minneapolis, Minn./North Dakota State Brenden Redfern R 5-11 168 Fr.-HS Austin, Texas/Westlake H.S. Trent Redfern R 5-10 158 Jr.-2L Austin, Texas/Westlake H.S. Tucker Wadkins R 5-9 142 Fr.-HS Dallas, Texas/Trinity Christian Academy Director of Golf: Rick LaRose (34th Season) Assistant Coach: Andy Barnes (Fourth Season) 2011-12 University of Arizona Men's Golf Team. Front Row (l to r): Tye Beall, Tucker Wadkins, Ricky Lee, Ben Esparza. Middle Row: Kenji Hernandez, Juan Pablo Hernandez, Alex McMahon, Brenden Redfern, Trent Redfern, Benson Liu, Dylan Kornberg. Back Row: Head Coach Rick LaRose, Sean Jones, Philip Bagdade, Chris Capo, Parker Houston, Erik Oja, Nick Olsgaard, Assistant Coach Andy Barnes. 2 2011-12 University of Arizona Men’s Golf Q&A With Coach Rick LaRose What are your thoughts on the roster teammates in golf. You have to learn to take as the spring season opens? care of your own business and the team will “I think out top seven or eight guys pretty work out. It’s tough when you have much know who they are right now based individual sports like that to get that camara- on what results we’ve had. Obviously, derie, to get the chemistry, and that’s part of you’ve got Erik (Oja) and Juan Pablo, who is what we’re doing. Once that clicks, it makes almost certainly one of the better players in things a lot easier for everybody.” the country. He and Erik are pretty strong at Please talk of Juan Pablo Hernandez’s the top, and I think Tucker Wadkins may be development: one of the best young players in the country. “I can tell you exactly when he turned the Trent Redfern, nobody’s got a bigger heart corner. Back at regionals last year, we and nobody works harder and nobody’s a needed a birdie coming in, and on the better player to have on your team. He’s a hardest hole in the golf course, he hits it to great team guy and he’s kind of a good within two feet with a long iron, and that leader, and that’s a pretty good nucleus.” puts us in the NCAA Championships.” With such a youthful roster, how much From that point on, he gained confidence. importance is placed on patience? He’d done it, he got over the hump. This fall, “Patience is everything, especially for the he played exceptionally well for us. He went freshmen. It’s a different way of life (in to Australia to play for the Australian Master college); it’s playing harder golf courses, for the Amateurs, playing with the Mexican more pressure, everything you do really squad, and you can tell that he had some matters, and that takes an adjustment period. confidence in what he was doing. He’s You have to be patient with them, and they played with the best in the world, and he have to be patient with themselves. That’s knows that he can hang with them. He’s a the hardest thing. In golf, the variables are fiery guy and I love it. He’s got some heart in so different. Weather, the bounce of the ball him, and he’s shown it. I think it all goes back Sophomore Erik Oja – you never know.” to that shot he hit on No. 18 at Tucson is tough, there are thousands of better “I’m pleased with our guys. I think we may National last year. I think that may be the players, and you see it every week.” have the makings of one of the best young spot, and I hope he gets better and better, teams in the country, if not the best, young and I think he can win.” Do the aspirations for this team change team in the country.