Blaine Woodruff - Chattanooga Men's Golf Coach

September 1, 2025·42 min·3 clips

Ben Adelberg kicks off the college golf season by revealing he'll cover a powerhouse tournament at the historic Honors Course in Chattanooga.

College golf is already moving. Ben Adelberg opens with David Ford's Haskins Award, Mirabel Ting's Oniko Award, Oklahoma State and Northwestern winning at Omni La Costa, and a summer spent bouncing between tournament stops. The travel matters here because it leads right to Chattanooga, where the Honors Course and The Invitational hosted by UT Chattanooga give the episode its home base. Blaine Woodruff is the main conversation. This is less about a shiny career jump and more about knowing when an assistant coach should take over a program. His answer is patient. Woodruff says his timing came after years of learning with Michael, then reaching the point where running something himself felt right. He was not trying to leave just to leave. Even when other jobs looked bigger on paper, he wanted a place that fit his values and the way he thinks coaching should work. Chattanooga did. Woodruff grew up about an hour and a half away, remembered the program at a top-25 level, and knew it had reached No. 1 in the country at one point in 2009. By the time he arrived, he says the team was 145th, but the pieces still looked real. The courses mattered. So did the facility, the city's golf culture, and the sense that the program could wake back up. Ben keeps the tone loose, joking about head coaching timelines before letting Woodruff get into the quieter work of studying a job before saying yes. The finish stays with player development, the Honors Invitational, and the show's regular coverage channels.

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A Chattanooga golf conversation that favors program fit, facilities, and local golf culture.

This Chattanooga golf segment leans into program-building as much as on-course preview. It follows Ben Adelberg at the Honors Course in Chattanooga as he sets up the UT Chattanooga Invitational and talks with Blaine Woodruff, the men's golf coach at UT Chattanooga.

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A Chattanooga golf check-in before the Honors Invitational, with coach Blaine Woodruff talking through the job and the program.

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