Acceptance Rate
72%
Avg SAT
1,174
Avg ACT
25
Enrollment
27,312
Sport
Golf
Gender
Women's
Division
NCAA Division 1
Location
Fayetteville, AR
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Shauna Taylor
Head Coach
Estes-Taylor has been preparing for her time in the first chair. Arkansas is a special place and Im excited to lead this program to even greater heights, Estes-Taylor said when hired after five seasons as a Razorback assistant. This team, community and University are very dear to my heart and I feel fortunate to be a part of this program. Those are sentiments she echos in her 10th season in 2016-17. Every day I come to work knowing we have a group of young women who want to work hard and be better at everything they do on and off the golf course, she said. My husband, Adam, and I feel blessed to be her and to raise our family in Northwest Arkansas. The fourth head coach in program history, Estes-Taylor wasted no time picking up the reigns from mentor, friend and former Bulldog Kelley Hester who returned to her alma mater after five seasons at Arkansas. As a head coach for the Razorbacks, Estes-Taylor has coached six players to 14 All-American honors, 31 All-Southeastern Conference selections including the 2008 SEC Golfer of the Year (Stacy Lewis) and the 2011 SEC Co-Freshman of the Year (Emily Tubert) and guided the team to 11 tournament titles and 17 individual medalist honors. The former Shauna Estes was more than a standout student-athlete at Georgia. She was part of the winning tradition of some of the best collegiate golfers and teams during her four-year career. A four-time All-American and All-SEC player, Estes-Taylors honors include 1997 SEC Womens Golf Freshman of the Year and the 1997 and 2000 SEC Womens Golf Player of the Year honors. She is still tied for the most individual wins for the Bulldogs with seven including the 1997 and 1999 SEC title. Estes-Taylor finished a personal-best third at the 1999 NCAA Championship and paced the Bulldogs to four top 10 team appearances on the biggest stage for college golf. Her name remains sprinkled throughout the record books at her alma mater. Estes-Taylor left college golf to try her hand on the professional circuit. She spent three seasons playing in the DURAMED Futures Tour, playing in 10 events in 2000, 19 in 2001 and 10 in 2002. She made 22 cuts and had three top 10 finishes. As her professional playing career came to a close, Estes-Taylor returned to the collegiate ranks in January 2003, becoming Hesters assistant at Arkansas. That season, Arkansas returned to the NCAA Regional Championship making the programs second-ever appearance in the postseason. It would start a run of 11 consecutive NCAA Regional appearances for the Razorbacks. Another important development in the life of Estes-Taylor and the history of the Razorbacks happened around the same time. The Razorback coaching staff recruited a player from The Woodlands, Texas, named Stacy Lewis. Lewis had a good junior season but recurring problems with scoliosis (a curvature of the spine) forced the budding star to have back surgery. Despite the seeming career-ending circumstances, the Razorbacks offered and honored their offer to Lewis to come to Arkansas. Lewis accepted the offer and redshirted her first season with the Razorbacks. It was during this rehab year that Lewis hit the putting green with Estes-Taylor and the duo fine-tuned the short game of the player who would go on to be one of the best to play the game at Arkansas. Estes-Taylor and Lewis formed a bond that remains to this day. Estes-Taylor was the assistant coach when Lewis won the 2005 SEC Individual title, earned Freshman of the Year honors and for the 2007 NCAA National Title. It was that season that Estes-Taylor earned National Golf Coaches Association Assistant Golf Coach of the Year honors. Its an honor to be recognized by other coaches for doing a good job, said Estes-Taylor said at the time. I really feel prepared to lead a golf team. My goal from the beginning was to gain the experience necessary to become a head coach. Kelley (Hester) has given me this great opportunity to grow as a person and to develop into a coach. I feel this award is another great stepping stone towards my ultimate goal of becoming a head coach. Little did Estes-Taylor know the foreshadowing of her comments. Just two weeks later, she became the head coach of the Razorbacks. Firmly seated in the first chair, Estes-Taylor reached out to one of her former coaches, Mike Adams, convincing him to leave Hilton Head, S.C., to join her in Fayetteville. It has proven to be a winning combination with the pair guiding Arkansas to eight consecutive NCAA Regional appearances including a program-best third-place finish in 2014-15 in St. George, Utah. Estes-Taylor and Adams have also paced the Razorbacks to five NCAA Championship appearances and again recorded the programs best showing with a tie for fifth place in 2011. Finally, the tandem has teamed to lead Arkansas to five consecutive top five finishes at the Southeastern Conference Championship (2008-2012) including a program-best second-place finish in 2008 and 2012 and a tie for second in 2009. The 2013-14 season saw Estes-Taylor push Arkansas to new heights. The Razorbacks were ranked a program-best No. 4 in the Golfstat.com and the Golf World/NGCA polls this season. Estes-Taylors team picked up three tournament titles, tying a program record for wins in a season and she earned the programs first-ever Southeastern Conference Womens Golf Coach of the Year honor. Recently, Estes-Taylor and the Razorbacks earned the programs first No. 1 national ranking and watched junior Gabriela Lopez lead the team with an NCAA runner-up finish in 2014-15. The Razorbacks had a program-best third-place NCAA Regional finish that year and finished ninth overall at the NCAA Championship, just missing the cut for the top eight teams who moved on to match play. Estes-Taylor was inducted into the NGCA Players Hall of Fame in 2009 capping off a successful season at Arkansas. Born in Orangeburg, S.C., Estes was a 2000 graduate of Georgia with a degree in turf grass management. Estes is married to Adam Taylor of Harrisburg, Ill., and the couple welcomed their first child, daughter, Grace, in the fall of 2015. Taylor is a sports performance director at the Shoulder Center of Arkansas, and the couple resides in Fayetteville and the family includes daughter, Gracie and dogs, Moe and Hogan. There really is no limit to what Estes-Taylor expects to accomplish at Arkansas. She has put the Razorbacks on the college golf map and has made Arkansas a destination for the countrys elite players. As the 2016-17 season begins, Estes-Taylor welcomes the new challenges it brings. She has the Razorbacks poised to move up in the rankings, keep the NCAA Regional appearance streak alive and return to the NCAA Championship. Stay tuned and see whats next!
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Mike Adams
Assistant Coach
Adams has assisted Arkansas to the top six finishes at the SEC Championship, 10 consecutive NCAA Regional appearances and six NCAA Championship appearances. He became the second Razorback womens golf assistant to earn NGCA Assistant Coach of the Year when he was honored in 2013. Current head coach Shauna Estes-Taylor earned the award in her final season as a Razorback assistant in 2007. Adams began his association with Estes-Taylor as her coach throughout her junior years, her collegiate career and while she was on tour as a professional player. Prior to joining the Razorbacks, Adams worked five years at the International Junior Golf Academy on Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he was a senior instructor. While there, Adams worked with some of the best instructors in the country. In addition, he helped train some of the best junior golfers from all over the world and several of Adams former students are currently playing college golf and professional tours. Before working at the golf academy Adams spent 19 years at the Woodlands Country Club in Columbia, S.C. He served the Woodlands as head golf professional, director of golf and for the final three and a half years as general manager. While at the Woodlands, Adams worked with several members of the University of South Carolina womens golf team who used the Woodlands as their home course. Adams is a member of the Professional Golfers Association of America, an organization he has been associated with for more than 30 years, and he is a member of the PGAs Quarter Century Club. While in the Carolinas, Adams served on the Carolinas PGA Section Board of Directors and also served on the sections rules and tournament committee. Adams graduated from Thomas Heyward Academy in Ridgeland South Carolina, and received a bachelors of science degree in Business Administration from Newberry College in Newberry South Carolina in 1977. Adams has one son, Michael Adams Junior. 2016. All Rights Reserved.
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