Episode 22: Dana Dormann

Dana Dormann keeps finding herself back at San Jose State. After an illustrious playing career at  San Jose State where she won the 1987 national team championship and the Pacific Coast Athletic Association Player of the Year award, she helped the Spartans win another national championship in 1989 as an assistant coach. Dormann enjoyed success on the LPGA Tour. But San Jose State’s siren song was strong, she joined the coaching staff as an assistant to her husband, John. The program had fallen on hard times, but in the last five years, under her leadership as head coach, the program has turned around and is winning events and competing with power 5 schools regularly. We talk about life as a college golf coach, how she runs practices, and how the game has changed. She also shares a bit about her background and her pact with two boys in her neighborhood to earn college golf scholarships. Finally, Dormann tells a great story about her first LPGA Tour event and how it not only launched her on the right path but also her husband’s as a tour caddy for a different golfer.Amateur Golf Links:AmateurGolf.comSubscribeInstagramTwitterFacebookYouTubeAmateur Golf Links:AmateurGolf.comSubscribeInstagramTwitterFacebookYouTube