Devon Brouse

Position: Head Coach Experience: 14th Season

Devon Brouse has been the head coach and director of golf operations for the Boilermaker men's and women's golf teams since returning to his alma mater in 1998. Brouse graduated from Purdue in 1971 with a B.S. in agronomy.

Brouse is one of the finest coaches in collegiate golf and in 2010, he led the Boilermakers to a women's golf national championship. His women's teams have captured five Big Ten Championships and have finished in the top 10 in each of the last six NCAA Championships, including a runner-up finish last season.

In the fall of 2009, Brouse was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America's Hall of Fame.

In 2009, Brouse coached Maria Hernandez to the NCAA individual championship, a first for Purdue and for the Big Ten. Brouse has won five Big Ten Coach of the Year honors, including three consecutive, and was named NGCA and Golfweek's National Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2010.

Under Brouse's guidance, the women's team has advanced to the NCAA Championships every year since 2000, a feat accomplished by only three Division I programs (Arizona State, Purdue and Southern California).

In 2009, the Boilermakers won five tournaments, including a second-consecutive Big Ten title, finished second at the NCAA Central Regional and 10th at the NCAA Championships. After winning the NCAA individual title, Hernandez was named the Honda Sports Award as the top collegiate women's golfer, the PING/NGCA National Player of the Year and the Big Ten Suzy Favor Female Athlete of the Year.

After earning a 21-stroke victory at the 2008 Big Ten Championships, the Boilermakers followed up their conference title with a second-place finish at the NCAA Central Regional Championships in Austin, Texas. Purdue carried that momentum into the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., capturing fourth place as a team. For the season, the Boilermakers finished first or second in seven of the 11 events in which they competed.

The 2007-08 season was a year of record-breaking performances as the Boilermaker women recorded four of the top five lowest team rounds in school history and 17 of the 28 best individual rounds. Additionally, Purdue was honored with the Big Ten Golfer of the Week Award a record-breaking five times.

Brouse's golfers continue to set the pace for the Big Ten Conference. Last year, Maude-Aimee LeBlanc earned the Mary Fossum Award for low-stroke season stroke average in the conference, keeping the trophy in West Lafayette since the inception of the award in 2007. For three-straight seasons, Hernandez won the Mary Fossum Award and was teh Big Ten Player of the Year. In 2008, Hernandez turned in the best 72-hole score in conference history, firing a 281 at the Big Ten Championships to earn medalist honors, a first for Purdue women's golf. A Boilermaker has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Year five of the last six years, including current players Maude-Aimee LeBlanc and Laura Gonzalez-Escallon.

Several of Brouse's golfers have been recognized on a national level, as well. Hernandez and LeBlanc have both earned first team All-America accolades and Brouse's players have earned 23 All-America awards in the last decade, including six first team All-America recognitions.

The 2006-07 season saw the women advance to the NCAA Championships and a second place finish; a school and conference record. Christel Boeljon tied for second. The Boilermakers won four tournaments during the season and Hernandez became the first Purdue women's golfer to earn first team All-America honors.

In 2005-06, the Boilermakers finished in the top three in every tournament of the regular season, winning the Big Ten Championships and the NCAA West Regional Championships. Brouse led the women to a ninth place finish in the NCAA Championships, tying the previous best finish in school history. The team set a school record with six tournament victories that season. Brouse was awarded both the national Coach of the Year Award and the Labron Harris Sr. Award by the Golf Coaches Association of America. The Harris Award is presented to the college or high school coach and PGA professional whose support of the game through teaching, coaching and involvement in the community has helped ensure the continued growth of the game.

In 2003, Brouse and the women's team hosted the NCAA Women's Golf National Championship on Purdue's Kampen Course and finished 12th.

In just his second season, Brouse led the women to their first Big Ten Championships title and did so in record-breaking fashion with a 72-hole team total score of 1,167. Following the Big Ten success, Brouse's team earned its first-ever NCAA qualification which resulted in a then-school best ninth place finish in the NCAA Championships.

While with Purdue, Brouse has coached six Big Ten Players of the Year (Lee Williamson, Hernandez (three times), Stacy Orschell and Onnarin Sattayabanphot) and seven Big Ten Freshman of the Year (Christel Boeljon, Kari Damron, Whitney Frykman, Stefanie Endstrasser, Laura Gonzalez-Escallon, LeBlanc and Chris Mayson). The women's program won four straight conference Golfer of the Year awards and had four consecutive Freshman of the Year awards.

In addition to his coaching duties for both the men's and women's golf teams at Purdue, Brouse is responsible for overseeing operations for the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex. The 36-hole masterpiece features two distinctly challenging courses - the Ackerman Hills and Kampen layouts. The latter was the designed by the legendary Pete Dye and was the site for the 2008 NCAA Men's Championships and the 2003 NCAA Women's Championships. The complex features state-of-the-art practice facilities and ranks among the finest in college golf.

A class "A" member of the PGA, Brouse joined the University of North Carolina in 1973 as the golf director and superintendent of facilities following two years as assistant director of the Indianapolis municipal golf course system. In 1977, he became assistant coach to Mike McLeod and was named head coach on year later when McLeod retired.

Brouse immediately experienced success as North Carolina's head coach, leading the Tar Heels to a second-place finish in the ACC Tournament and a fifth-place showing at the NCAA Championships. Named the ACC Coach of the Year following the 1981, 1991 and 1995 seasons, Brouse led North Carolina to six ACC team championships (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1995, 1996), 16 top-five conference finishes and 10 top-10 NCAA finishes, including second place in 1991 and third in 1993.

Brouse has been instrumental in the development of several individual players who achieved great success at both the collegiate and professional levels. Under his tutelage, Brouse has mentored 81 all-conference performers, two NCAA individual champions (Hernandez and John Inman), a Fred Haskins Award Winner (John Inman), a Ben Hogan Award Winner (Mark Wilson), two Palmer Cup participants (Max Harris and Lee Williamson) and two Walker Cup selections (Frank Fuhrer and Tom Scherrer).

Brouse has also coached 10 World Amateur selections (John Inman, Shiv Kapur, Maximo Kopp, Santiago Russi, Boeljon, Myrte Eikenaar, Endstrasser, Hernandez, Thea Hoffmeister and LeBlanc).

In addition, Brouse also coached Patrick Moore, the leading money winner on the 2002 Buy.com Tour. Four of his pupils (Davis Love III, John Inman, Tom Scherrer and Mark Wilson) have won titles on the PGA Tour and Hernandez won a Ladies European Tour tournament in her rookie season.

A native of Indianapolis, and a 1967 graduate of Decatur Central High School, Brouse was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He and his wife, Kathy, have two sons, Matt and Brent, a daughter, Ashley, and grandsons, Colin, Scott and Tyler.

Coaching Experience

• Head Coach, Purdue University, 1998 to present
• Head Coach, University of North Carolina, 1978 to 1998

Coaching Highlights
• 2010 NCAA Champions (Purdue women)
• 2009 NCAA Individual Champion (Maria Hernandez)
• GCAA Hall of Fame - Class of 2009
• 2006 and 2010 NGCA National Women's Coach of the Year
• 2006 and 2010 Golfweek National Women's Coach of the Year
• 2006 Labron Harris Award Winner
• Big Ten Coach of the Year (2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Three-time Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year (1981, 1991, 1995)
• 1991 and 1995 District III North Coach of the Year
• 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010 Region Coach of the Year
• 34 NCAA championship appearances
• Five Big Ten Titles (2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Six ACC Titles (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1995, 1996)
• Five Big Ten individual champions
• Six ACC individual champions
• 2001 NCAA Central regional champions (Purdue men)
• 2002 NCAA Central regional champions (Purdue men)
• 2006 NCAA Western regional champions (Purdue women)
• 59 All-American selections
• 81 All-Conference selections
• 92 Individual tournament titles
• 96 team tournament titles
• 1984 NCAA individual champion (John Inman)

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