2001-02 Wisconsin Golf • Quick Facts Location: Madison, Wis. Population: 208,054 Founded: 1848 Enrollment: 41,511 Nickname: Badgers Colors: Cardinal and White Conference: Big Ten Division: NCAA I Chancellor: John Wiley Athletic Director: Pat Richter Assistant Athletic Director—Golf: Terry Gawlik Sports Information Contacts: Tamara J. Flarup University Ridge Golf Course is the home of the Wisconsin men and women’s golf teams. The Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Office Phone: (608) 263-5502 designed course has been the site of numerous national and regional tournaments including the 1998 NCAA Division I Home Phone: (608) 238-3650 Women’s Golf Championship. Pictured above is the long par-5 ninth hole which measures 554 yards from the gold tees. Fax: (608) 265-8051 Email: [email protected] Rob Jansen, Student Assistant Office Phone: (608) 262-1811 Table of Contents • Email: [email protected] Quick Facts ....................................................................................................................................................................................1 Head Coach Head Coach Dennis Tiziani .....................................................................................................................................................2 Dennis Tiziani (Northland College, ‘64) Tiziani’s Career Highlights.......................................................................................................................................................3 25th year as men’s coach; Assistant Coach Lori Murphy .................................................................................................................................................4 13th year as women’s coach Assistant Coach Pat Gorman .................................................................................................................................................4 Office Phone: (608) 249-1000 Fax: (608) 249-7733 Youth Has 2002 Badgers on the Rise ..................................................................................................................................5 2001–02 Women’s Roster ......................................................................................................................................................6 Assistant Coaches 2001–02 Women’s Schedule & Results .............................................................................................................................7 Lori Murphy (Texas, 1980) Office Phone: (608) 249-1663 Meet the Badger Women ........................................................................................................................................................8 Email: [email protected] 2000–01 Women’s Golf Results .........................................................................................................................................16 2000–01 Women’s Season in Review ..............................................................................................................................17 Pat Gorman (Wisconsin, 1989) Women’s All–Time Records ................................................................................................................................................18 Office Phone: (608) 249-1000 Email: [email protected] Women’s Big Ten Championship Results ......................................................................................................................19 The Wisconsin Golf Club .......................................................................................................................................................20 Home Course: University Ridge 2001–02 Men’s Roster ..........................................................................................................................................................21 2001 Women’s Big Ten Place: 8th 2001–02 Men’s Schedule & Results ..................................................................................................................................22 2001 Men’s Big Ten Place: 7th Badger’s Class Act Aiming High ........................................................................................................................................23 Women’s Letterwinners Meet the Badger Men ............................................................................................................................................................24 Returning/Lost: 5/2 2000–01 Men’s Golf Results ................................................................................................................................................31 Men’s Letterwinners 2000–01 Men’s Season in Review .....................................................................................................................................32 Returning/Lost: 2/4 Men’s All–Time Records ........................................................................................................................................................33 Men’s Big Ten Championship Results .............................................................................................................................34 UW Mailing Address Wisconsin Honor Roll .............................................................................................................................................................35 Coach Dennis Tiziani Cherokee Country Club Coaching Records ...................................................................................................................................................................38 5000 N. Sherman Ave. Golf in Madison ........................................................................................................................................................................40 Madison, WI 53704 The Wisconsin Experience ...................................................................................................................................................41 Credits: The 2001–02 Wisconsin Golf Media Guide was written by Rob Jansen; Edited by Julie Kluge and Brian Borkovec; Designed by Barry Carlsen, University Communications; Photography by Jay Salvo, Greg Anderson, and Tamara Flarup. On the cover (clockwise from top left): Kevin Tassistro, Katie Connelly, Malinda Johnson, Joel Rechlicz, Jon Turcott and Emily Hendricks. 1 Head Coach Dennis Tiziani currently serves as the president of Cherokee Mario in 1992. Nicki is married to PGA golfer Park, Inc. Steve Stricker, and they are the proud parents Tiziani remains one of Wisconsin’s premier of Tiziani’s first grandchild, Bobbie. players as well as a top coach and golf instruc- tor. He won the State Open in 1976 and has been the runner-up five times. He is a two-time winner of the State Match Play title, four-time winner of the Wisconsin PGA Medal Play title, and has been named Player of the Year by the Wisconsin PGA four times. He participated in the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship four times, and qualified for the National PGA Club Professional Championship from 1973–84, plac- ing sixth in 1976. Tiziani has held numerous offices in the Wisconsin Professional Golf Association. He chaired the education and PGA teaching com- mittees, the membership committee, the junior golf committee, and numerous tournament committees, including the Wisconsin State Open. Tiziani also held the offices of treasurer, secretary, and president during his tenure with his season marks Dennis Tiziani’s 25th the WPGA. year as the head coach of the UW men’s In demand as a clinician, Tiziani has given T program and his 13th-year anniversary of over 200 junior golf clin- directing the UW women’s golf team. ics throughout Wisconsin During his tenure he has raised both pro- in the past 20 years. He grams from conference obscurity to Big Ten has spoken at numerous champions and has brought national recogni- workshops for high school tion to Wisconsin golf. golf coaches, and has Tiziani led the Badger women to their first attended clinics for college Big Ten Conference Championship and first coaches and players at sites NCAA regional appearance during the 1993–94 throughout the country. He season. For his team’s accomplishments, Tiziani has written a golf instruc- was recognized as the Coach of the Year in both tion column for Wisconsin the Big Ten Conference and the Midwest Dis- Golf magazine, and in 1991 trict of the National Golf Coaches Association. he began hosting “Wiscon- The previous season, Tiziani’s men’s team sin Golf with Dennis Tiziani,” had ended a 36-year drought and captured its a prime-time, half-hour first Big Ten title since 1957. Tiziani completed television show that airs the sweep for Wisconsin in 1994 when the Bad- statewide and features golf ger men successfully defended their conference instruction, golf equipment championship and joined the women atop the recommendations, inter- Big Ten. views with golf personalities Tiziani has twice guided Wisconsin’s men’s and a golf rules segment. team to the NCAA national championship tour- Through his participa- nament in 1990 and 1992. The Badgers finished tion and leadership, Tiziani a best-ever 16th place (out of 30 teams) at the continues to be one of the 1992 championship. most influential golf profes- Tiziani, 57, began his golfing career at an sionals in Wisconsin. He early age under the tutelage of his father, who is currently spearheading was the golf pro at Gogebic Country Club in the creation of a Wisconsin Ironwood, Mich. Upon graduating from North-