University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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JUNIOR Ryan Michals, of Orland Park, IIL, was a transfer ' .ludent ffom f lorlda Gulf Coast University in the 2003-2004 season. He will be a returning senior witfi Coach Ross. Athletics I 361

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' if I was a clisappoiming season lor the 2003- 4 Rebel Men ' s Golf team that ended in the non-renewal of 1 1 -year head coach Woody Cowart and a last place finish in the SEC tournament. Entering the season, the Rebels hopes where high. The team returned four letter winners, including Jarrod Gardner, who the previous summer qualified for the U.S. Amateur. He lost in the first round of match plays, but not without a fight. He won three of the last four holes to force e.xtra holes, but lost on the 19th. Gardner, a senior from Westwood, Texas, was the first player under Cowart to qualify for the match-play portion of the Amateur. The Rebel men ' s links team also boasted seniors Lucas Boyd, Dan Luke and Pope Spruicll along with juniors Derek Abel, Ben Dowell, Bryan Kane, Ryan Michals, David Shields and Adam Swope. For the 2003-04 season, the team finished with an overall record of 68-76-5, a .473 winning percentage. The team earned five top- five luiishes and one lop-lhrec. They won no events. In the team ' s five fall loiunaments. the team ' s best finish was fifth in September ' s Mason Rudolph Championships. Eighteen A DIFFERENT STROKE The men ' s Rebel Golf team landed last place in the 2003-04 season, but their hopes are high for 2004-05 with the return of a championship wntten hx BEN BEITZEL pholngraplml by DARRELL BLAKELY teams competed in the 36-hole tournament including SEC foes South Carolina (3), anderbilt (4), Kentucky (6), LSU fT-7) and , labama (15). In that tournament, Ciardner notched his best finish of the year with a tie for fifth, shooting 75-70 in the two day event. The team ' s best finish of the season came in March 2004 at the L ALR Lindsey Collegiate, when the team placed second in the 54-hole event. For the tournament, the men shot a combined 887, just seven strokes off the championship pace, set by Arkansas-Little Rock. A veteran and a newcomer spurred the Rebels best finish of the year. The senior, Spruiell, fired his best finished, a tie for sixth and freshmen Kyle Ellis finished all alone in third place. This tournament finish came on the heels of two-consecutive fourth place finishes at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate and the Conrad Hehling Imitational, both 54-hole events. In the Herb Wimberly, redshirt freshmen Galium Macaulay, of Kincardine, Scotland, finished a season-best tie for eighth. Despite this promising start of the fall season, the final two tournaments where disappointments for the Rebels. In the Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate, in Opelika, Ala., the team finished at a tie for eighth, behind SEC foe and toiu ' nament winner Auburn, as well as Memphis and Florida State. . ' gain, Spuiell and Ellis led the Rebels, both finishing at e en par for the tournamenl. good enough lor a tie at seventh place. Then, in the Rebel ' s final tournament, the team finished three strokes behind Alabama to finish last in the SEC tournament. At St. Simons Island, Ga., the Rebels dug an early hole, shooting an opening day 302, that they never climbed out of Swope led the team, firing a three-day score of 218, good enough for his highest finish of the year at 24th. Despite a disappointing end, and the release of long-time coach Cowart, the Rebels entered the simimer with the re-hire of former golf coach Ernest Ross. Ross coached the team from 1979-87, winning the SEC in 1984. I am excited about returning to Ole Miss, the Ole Miss alumnus said after his June hiring. I welcome the challenge, and I appreciate the opportunity to once again coach the men ' s program. I can ' t wait to get started. It will be a long road for Ross, but fVom the bottom, the only way the team can go is up. : SENIOR Jordan Dempsey ; finished 19tti inthoSK i Tournament, wtiicTfwas the ; highest ranking on the Ole ' Miss Squad, Dempjsyi? from I Jacksonville, Fla. and has won ' two letters. 360 I The Ole Miss 2005

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JUNIOR NIKKI HADD, from Crestview, Fla., approaches the 2004-2005 season with high hopes. She was a leading player consistently placing in the top 15 in tournaments. She won the team ' s Lady Rebel Award for her effort. She also adds to the women ' s golf team academic excellence by earning university Honor Roll Status. 362 I Tm; Ole Miss 2005