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Bill Woodley enters his fifth season at the helm of the Texas State men's golf program.
Woodley came back to then Southwest Texas in 2002 after coaching stops at Arkansas and TCU. It is certainly a case of coming full-circle as the man he replaced, Jim Bob Jackson, played for Woodley in his first go around with the Bobcats and helped him win a conference championship.
Woodley spent 15 years as head coach at Arkansas. In his tenure, he recorded two conference championships, the Southwest Conference in 1988 and the Southeastern Conference in 1995, and nine top-ten finishes in the NCAA tournament.
Before joining the Razorbacks, Woodley spent two seasons as the head coach at TCU. In his short stint with the Horned Frogs, Woodley won a SWC championship and was the conference coach of the year both seasons.
He began his coaching career at Southwest Texas, now Texas State, in 1980 as the head coach of the Bobcats. In four years at then Southwest Texas, he recorded a NCAA Division II National Championship, three conference championships and one second place conference finish.
Before coaching, Woodley attended Texas State and was a standout player for the Bobcats. He was a four-year letter winner from 1975-78, an all-conference selection and runner-up in the Lone Star Conference Tournament in 1977.
Woodley never played professionally, but he has enjoyed considerable success at the amateur level. He qualified in the 1976 U.S. Open but did not participate in competition. He also recorded the lowest amateur score at the Texas Open and has won more than 100 tournament titles.
Woodley, a native of Tulsa, Okla., graduated from Hale High School in 1968. He was an instructor at Barksdale Air Force Base before earning his bachelor's degree from Texas State in 1978 and his master's in 1980.
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