Head Coach Rich Danch

Phone: (330) 263-2170
e-mail: rdanch@wooster.edu

A 1989 graduate of The College of Wooster, Rich Danch is in his 12th year as his alma mater’s Head Golf Coach.

During his first 11 seasons, Danch has guided the Scots to six tournament titles, two runner-up finishes at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships, and an appearance at the NCAA Div. III Championships. His tenure has been highlighted by the 1998 campaign when the Fighting Scots came in second at the conference tourney and then placed 13th among a field of 23 teams at nationals. Among the players he has coached, there has been one All-American and three All-America Scholars as well as many All-NCAC performers.

A "Class A” member of the Professional Golfers Association of America since 1993, Danch possesses a wealth of experience as an instructor, which is of great benefit not only to his coaching, but also to his position as PGA Director of Instruction at the L.C. Boles Memorial Golf Course on Wooster's campus. Danch, who returned to the College after spending seven years in a variety of golf-related positions, also teaches golf classes within the Department of Physical Education.

Danch began his golf career in 1989, spending two years at Cypress Run Golf Club (Tarpon Springs, FL) as an Assistant Golf Professional. He then came back to Ohio and spent one year as the First Assistant Pro at the Elyria Country Club. After that, he moved to Illinois in 1992 to join the staff at LaGrange Country Club, where he started out as an Associate Pro and ascended to the positions of First Assistant Pro and Interim Head Professional. Most recently before returning to Wooster, from '95-'96, Danch was a PGA Teaching Professional at the Ken Venturi Golf Training Center in downtown Chicago, where he gave individual lessons and presented group clinics under the tutelage of the 1964 US Open Champion and World Golf Hall of Fame Member, Ken Venturi.

Ironically, as an undergraduate, Danch earned four varsity letters and was a three-time all-NCAC award winner, including first-team honors in 1989, as a relief pitcher for Wooster’s nationally-ranked baseball team. Still the school’s career saves leader (16), he helped lead the Scots to three-straight conference championships (1987, 1988, 1989) and was the closer for the 1989 squad, which won the NCAA Mideast regional and went on to the Div. III National Championship Series.
A native of Warren, Ohio, Danch received a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Wooster.

Personally, Danch is married to Debora Esty, also a 1989 graduate of Wooster. They reside in Wooster with their son, Colin.