Murphy Continues As Women's Assistant Golf Coach
August 21, 2003 | Women's Golf
Wisconsin golf assistant coach Lori Murphy will return to her duties with the women's golf team announced head coach Dr. Todd Oehrlein Thursday. Murphy has spent the past 10 years as an assistant coach for both the men's and women's golf teams.
"I am extremely excited about the opportunity to work with Coach Murphy,' Oehrlein said. 'Her experience and tremendous knowledge of college golf will help ensure that the program will continue to move forward.
"Lori has a great relationship with the players and we are very fortunate that she will continue to work with the program."
As an assistant under former head coach Dennis Tiziani, Murphy also was the tournament director of the highly successful 1998 NCAA Division I Golf Championship held in Madison.
A Class A member of the PGA, Murphy competed on the Women's Professional Golf Association mini-tour from 1981-82 and the LPGA tour from 1982-84. She worked as a golf instructor at country clubs in both Florida and Pennsylvania before joining the staff at Maple Bluff Country Club in Madison to serve as an assistant golf professional from 1986-89. Murphy also worked as the tournament director of the Wisconsin PGA for five years.
The Fond du Lac, Wis., native was a four-year letterwinner at the University of Texas and won the 1979 Wisconsin State Amateur title. She graduated with honors from Texas in 1980 with a degree in interior design. Murphy and her husband Michael have two children, Sean and Kelsey.
