Dan Wood (soccer)

Dan Wood
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Phillip Wood
Date of birth	May 21, 1946
Place of birth	Elmira, New York, U.S.
Date of death	May 7, 2020 (aged 73)
Place of death	Port St. Lucie, Florida, U.S.
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1971–1975	Cornell University
1976	Tacoma Tides
1977	Colorado Caribous
1978–1980	Atlanta Chiefs
1984	Minnesota Strikers (assistant)

Daniel Phillip Wood (May 21, 1946 – May 7, 2020) was an American collegiate and professional

soccer coach. He was also a professional golfer

who was the top money winner on the 1996 Senior Series Golf Tour.

Youth

Wood was born in

magna cum laude. Wood was the captain of the Tuft’s 1968 baseball team and also lettered in soccer, basketball and football (placekicker.) He was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship to study at Cornell University

, where he became the soccer and tennis coach and earned a PhD in Education in 1977.

Soccer coach

Over his five years as the Cornell Big Red coach, he took the soccer team to a 52–20–6 record and five NCAA post season appearances. In 1972, Cornell reached the NCAA Final Four where it fell to

Atlanta, Georgia, becoming the Atlanta Chiefs. Despite his lack of success with the Caribous, Wood was retained by the team management in the move and served for two years as the Chiefs’ head coach. In 1980, he brought David Chadwick, his former Tides assistant coach, in as a joint head coach. When Wood left the Chiefs during the 1980 season, Chadwick replaced him as head coach. In 1984, Wood was the assistant head coach under Chadwick with the Minnesota Strikers, the last year of the NASL.^[2]

Golf

Wood, who was an outstanding amateur golfer through all his years as a coach, turned professional in 1980. He entered the club pro ranks in 1985 after several years of competition on various Florida mini-tours. He attained full PGA membership in 1988 and he tied for second in the 1988 North Florida PGA Section Championship, qualified for the

Senior PGA Tour. He played the Senior PGA Tour full-time starting in 1997 and in 1998, he had several top-10 finishes, including a tie for seventh at the U.S. Senior Open

, one of 52 events that he played on the Senior PGA Tour. In 1998, he led the Senior PGA Tour in eagles and achieved an all-around statistical ranking of 16th among all Senior Tour players.

Wood was the golf director and managing owner of the Winter Springs (Florida) Golf Club from 1985–1998. He was the women's golf head coach at Ithaca College (New York) until 2015, where he was assisted by his wife Sandra whom he married in 1986 and who was the Women's Club Champion at both the Cornell University Golf Club, the Orange Tree (Florida) Golf Club and the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Death

Wood died on May 7, 2020.^[3]

References

^ Ithaca High School Hall of Fame
^ 1984 Challenge Cup Rosters
^ "Ithaca College Mourns Passing of Women's Golf Founding Coach Dan Wood". Ithaca College Athletics. May 8, 2020.

External links

U.S. Senior Open bio
Dan Wood at the PGA Tour official site

[1] Ithaca High School Hall of Fame

[2] 1984 Challenge Cup Rosters

[3] "Ithaca College Mourns Passing of Women's Golf Founding Coach Dan Wood". Ithaca College Athletics. May 8, 2020.

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