LIVING LEGEND

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Haddock Made Coaching Golf a High-Profile Career

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Jesse Haddock saw his first golf match from the back of a pickup truck hau.ling fertilizer to his fam­

. s tobacco farm in Pitt County. Two months from now, Haddock will

load up his luxury sedan and roll down the highway toward Florida, toward re­tirement from a menial job that he trans­fonned into a consuming, high-profile career.

Golf coach was once considered a contradiction in terms. You could play golf, but you didn't coach golf, at least not in any conventional way. The golf

Icoacb secured a large vehicle :or two" out a travel advance, bo.l8ttt ba'in- '

Iburgers and dawdled while his young Lwin"p~ pursued their diversion.

Haddock never knocked the system, but he chauged it.soon aftertaldng over

"in 1960 when Bones McKinney discov­ered that modem basketNll required spring recruiting. Haddock had served..

as his substitute. He was the natural, ob­vious and only choice.

That was 23 All-Americas, 15 ACC ti­tles and three national championships ago. That was after Arnold Palmer but before Wake Forest became synonymous with dimpled white balls, before Jay Si­gel and Lanny Wadldns and Curtis Strange. ~

faddock bas coacMd the team every year since then except for 1977, when a dispute with Athletics Director Gene Hooks over money and power prompted Haddock to sign on at Oral Roberts University. He was rehired after fonner players lobbied the administration.

"Your wound heals and you just hope tllere's very little scar," Haddock

said. "It was a painful time for me, very painful."

Wake Forest's 1992 publicity bro­chure annointed Haddock a DYing legend. Some folks believe that Haddock ­even more than Houston's Dave Williams - invented the golf coaching profes­sion.

"It's his whole life," Strange said re­cently. "He cares so much about it. That's neat. It wasn't a passing fancy for him, ajob. It was his family. "

David Thore said that Haddock led with a firm hand. "He was very much a father image for a lot of us," Thore said. "He was pretty strict. We feared

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biro, but the fear was in a good way.af! demanded respect, and he got His biggest asset was knowing

~ow to handle people and motivate ·em." . Haddock has his name plastered

4p the school's unusual golf center, ere players \

can hit 4-irons ... : . der cover of Ir·,~__ .

j:"rage bays . ­d;lring rain­ 4., \ _ nns. He be­ ~ lPngs to four ~ of fame, .d he belongs to the past, to the school's i ~ roots in Wake County. He was AIIIIOUI PAWD even able to handpick his succes­sor, Jack Lewis Jr., an early star and the associate head coach the past three seasons.

Scott Hoch and other alwnni en­dorsed the transition plan soon af­ter Haddock outlined it to President Thomas K. Hearn Jr. and two trust­ees in the Firestone Cabin at Au­gqsta National Golf Club during a M:..sters stonn delay. "Jack's going to do a great job, but Jesse's one of a kind," Hoch said.

Haddock, 65, is a unique fellow, a trafty, gt!nial man who kept spot­t~ his openings until he advanced !rem gofer to golf figurehead. "He's a character, a real-life char­acter," Wadkins said. "He's always had these sayings and a funny way o( putting things, but he has al~ said what players needed to hear, whether, they thought so at the time or not. And his competitiveness has been underrated."

The promotion may not have seemed like such a giant step at the time. Haddock was named head coach on March 13, two days be­fore Wake Forest opened the sea­son in chilly College Park, Md.

The team stayed in a huge room at Byrd Stadium with two bare light bulbs and 15 bunk beds. "The Chicken House," they called it.

The boys kept talking about gold­en arches, and they coaxed Had­dock into feeding them at the first McDonald's restaurant he had ever seen. At dusk, the players persuad­ed Haddock to let them visit Wash­ington, where the burlesque show at the old Gaiety Theater offered sights worth reciting on campus.

lie set 10:30 p.m. as the curfew, and at 11 he was standing at the door, starting to fume. At midnight, he saw headlights. When the play­ers walked in, one of them inunedi­ately asked , "Who's got the cards?"

"I was so mad, it was one of the few times I couldn't talk," Haddock said. "I reached down and grabbed the cards. I tore 'em up and threw 'em. I started giving it to 'em: 'If you so and sos think you can play golf, I can probably go get the cad­dies at Old Town and beat you. I know they can play tonk better than you can.'"

Haddock soon turned his atten­tion to recruiting. He bad only one and one-half scholarships. He picked up a pocket-sized copy of Golf Digest. The cover featured a teen-ager who had shot phenome­nal scores at a tournament in Colo­rado, Jay Sigel.

Haddock mentioned to a Wake Forest staff member that Sigel was the kind of player he hoped to re­cruit but the man dismissed this notion as an absurd fantasy. Had­dock stewed.

Sigel played in the Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Pebble Beach, Calif., that winter. Haddock phoned him in Monterrey. "The call cost $3 and some cents," Haddock said. "Months later at a social, I was made fun of. One of our fInancial officers got on me for being callous with the telephone, calling Monter­rey. As.far as I know, that was our first expense in recruiting."

Sigel committed to Houston but eventually transferred to Wake For­est and became the cornerstone for the first outst.aI¥:ling teams.

Haddock turned Palmer's friend­ship, fame and loyalty into an asset. Palmer passed through Wmston­Salem after the second of his four Masters championships in 1960, and Haddock convinced him that a prominent golf program would help the school. Palmer called his agent and promptly donated the first $500 to a scholarship fund named for his roommate, Buddy Worsham, who had died in a car wreck during their college days.

The scholarship - often mistak­enly called the Palmer scholarship - became a centerpiece in Had­dock's recruiting pitches. "Arnold Palmer came to school here," Had­dock told prospects who developed into PGA millionaires. "If it w;lS

good for Arnold, couldn't it be good for you?"

Palmer, Wadkins and other golf­ers of various achievement return almost every year for a pro-am. GolfIng alwnni have pledged $3 million toward endo~ the pro­gram, and the goal has been raised to $7 million.

Haddock stands in the middie of this financial and familial network, a remarkable fact. He is a left-hand­ed golfer who never mastered the sport and virtually quit playing 17 years ago. As a child, he thought

that 400 yards was the distance from the tobacco bam to the field.

Haddock grew up in the Wmter­ville township just outside Green­ville, the oldest of four sons. His parents, Robert and Maybelle, worked hard to maintain a decent standard of living. " I was the little boy that came out of the Depres­sion, but they were the people that lived in the Depression," Haddock said.

Times got even tougher when he was 15 and his father lost every­thing except the farm by speculat­ing in cotton futures.

Haddock played baseball and basketball at Winterville High School, where kids went barefoot­ed in the late spring. He wore shoes only when going to Rose Hill Bap­tist Church.

His mother had attended college for one year. He still doesn't know why he picked Wake Forest about the time the 30 kids in the Class of '44 graduated. •

"It was a new life for me," Had­dock said. A few months later, Had­dock was dra(ted and assigned to duty in Ge~y, where the fight­ing had ended.

After returning to Wake Forest's old campus, Haddock took a job in the athletic department to help pay for his education. He ran errands for Athletics Director Jim Weaver and Murray Greason, the basket­ball coach. He drove Peahead Walker, ~e renowned football coach, to· catch the Silver M~teor train out of Raleigh.

Haddock organized team manag­ers, ran the equipment room and helped the trainer. And he moved up as he methodically advanced to­ward graduation in 1952, taking courses in the spring and summer. "I finally worked my way from the bottom of the gym to the offices at the front of the gym," he said.

Haddock swung his first golf club at the Paschal Golf Course near campus. He also monitored a boarding house where Palmer and Worsham lived on the second floor, just above him. Contrary to popular legend, Haddock never roomed with Palmer.

Haddock set the tone for his coaching career during his frrst trip to Maryland, but that was hardly the last time he stomped his foot in protest.

Few players can remember any specific rules. "Basically," Thore said, " it was Haddock's way or the highway. Back then we were more scared, but now we know how big­hearted a guy he is, that he's more talk than action. He threatened us a lot, but he never went through with much of it."

Strange, one of the most ram­bunctious players, insists that he was never assessed the ultimate

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Haddock penalty. "You wouldn't dare be caught doing anything," Strange said.

Haddock had dress codes. He preached how manners reflect ma­turity. He made the players stay near their rooms instead of ventur­ing out to bars on road trips.

The players tested the hot water from time to time. Strange and Jay Haas would fmd some grass near their rooms and hit wedge shots over nearby restaurants, astound­ing players from other teams with their gall.

" Lex Alexander and I broke a window out in San Diego at our hotel," Strange said. "The only thing that saved us was that we won the national championship. I'm sure that window cost $500."

Haddock also detested academic problems. When Gary Hallberg flirted with flunking out, Haddock told him to stay in his room. When Haddock called to check up on him, Hallberg was gone. Had dock tracked him down at a bar near the coliseum and had him paged.

Hallberg slipped out the back door, but Haddock trailed him back to his dorm. " I had just had a cap put on a tooth that day," Haddock recalled. "I was asking Gary how he could do this and slammed my fISt into the side of his bunk bed. The cap fell off, but I caught it in midair and kept on yelling. Gary told peo­ple later that he was so scared that he almost jumped out of his win­dow, which was on the second floor."

With his halting molasses voice, investigative eyes and penchant for decorum, Haddock has been the butt of a few pranks and embel­lished tales. i

Trying to fire up his players at Pinehurst one day, he punched a wall in the Carolina Hotel, knock­ing in the sheet rock around the light switch. As part of his penance, golfer Gary Pions tried to repair the damage, using toothpaste as spack­ling.

There was the time at a stoplight when Haddock saw two Hell 's An­gels wearing football jerseys. Had­dock made a smart remark. One a ngry biker p ulled Haddock through the car window before speeding off. Finally safe, Haddock turned to his companion and said, "Touchy, wasn't he?"

Haddock was a member of the NCAA selection committee one year when N.C. State players saw North Carolina's coach lobbying him in a restuarant in Orangeburg, S .C. The p layers, competing against Carolina for the bid, let the air out of Haddock's tires. He drove all the way back to his motel with­out noticing.

The next day, he told a friend: "Everything was fine when I came back last night, but I went out to get in my car this morning and all the air was out of my tires. Somebody must have sneaked into the parking lot. "

Strange credits Haddock with giving him a golfing routine and a strong mental approach. "In his own way, he was a good psycpolo­gist and didn't know it," Strange said. "He would talk things out, and he got his point across. He saw the talent in me and kept me on the right course. You knew wherever you turned, he was going to be there."

This ubiquitousness took a funny twist at a Wake Forest football game. " David Thore and I had a little too much to drink and we were, as they say, holding up Groves Stadium by leaning up against one of these pillars," Strange said. "We turned around and Jesse was on the other side of the same pillar, holding up the oth­er side. He was drunk as a hoot owl, and he didn't know we were drunk."

It 's hard to imagine the day when Haddock will no longer hold up the Wake Forest golf program, but that will come soon. He wants to stay out of Lewis' way and avoid the appearance of looking over his shoulder.

He wants to visit his two daugh­ters and travel with his Ylife to their vacation home at Grandfather Mountain. He knows he will spend lots of time with his daughter her­ry, who married golfer J im Simons and lives less than two miles away in Jupiter, Fla. She is fighting can­cer, and Jesse and Kay Haddock help take care of her children.

Haddock will have plenty of time for memories, perhaps none sweet­er than that afternoon in 1986 when the Deacons surged from 16 strokes behind and won the NCAA tiUe at Bermuda Run.

Billy Andrade remembers the glorious moment. "It had been a long time since' his last champion­ship in 1975, and a lot of people were down on him," Andrade said. "People wondered if he was re­cruiting the right kids or if he was too old to be relating to these young kids. It was nothing like that. It was just bad timing and competi­tion. All of a sudden, he wasn't winning like he had. I've always felt him winning that was the icing on the cake. And that was the day he gave me the best advice I've ever gotten in my life."

Was it a positive mental cue? A swing suggestion? A putting tip?

Andrade laughed. " He knew we were going to do some serious cele­brating," Andrade said. "He told me to take a cab."

DERBY

and $7.60, the biggest payoff since Ferdinand paid $37.40 in J986.

Before the race, Lynn Whiting, Lil E. Tee's trainer, had said: " If, Arazi is enough horse to sit back there and circle the field again, he is truly a super horse."

"Everybody else will be running for second," Arazi'sjockey, Pat Va­lenzuela, had said.

After the race, he said: " I still feel he is the greatest horse I have rid­den, and I just wish he could have proved it today to the public and the people around the world."

Valenzuela felt that Arazi got tired in the latter stages of the race and added: "It's too bad we didn't get another race into him."

"I always stated emphatically that there was a Derby out there. with my name on it," said Day, who went into Derby Week with 1,090 victories at Churchill Downs - but not the one he wanted most. "When I put the hammer do,,?, on Lil E. Tee, he kicked." t

"(ARAZI) DIDN'T HAVE any punch at the top of the strtech," Day said.

Lil E. Tee carried 126 pounds' over the 1y.. miles in 2:04 and ­earned $724,800 for owner W. Cal Partee, 82, who operates oil, bank­ing and lumber business with head­quarters in Magnolia, Ark. The last time Partee sent a horse to the Der­by was 1984, when At the thresh­old finished third.

At the Threshold is Lil E. Tee's sire.

One other jinx followed ~ yesterday - no Derby winner halt ever come out of the No. 17 post position.

While many people probably left the Downs disappointed and ligh~ in their wallets, there had to be ;j. certain satisfaction: .

The failure of an international star was eclipsed by the success of a Kentucky favorite.

KENTUCKY DERBY FINISH

. 1. lil E. Tee 2. Casual lies 3. Dance Aoor 4. Conte Of Savoya 5. Pine Bluff 6. AI Sabtn 7. Dr DeVIOUS 8 . Arazi 9. My l uck Runs North

10. Technology 11. West by West 12. DeVIl His Due 13. Thyer 14. Ecstatic Ride 15. SIr Pinder 16. Pistols and Roses 17. Snappy landing 18. Disposal

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Sport~ FRIDAY, DECE~BER 9,1977­

Haddock, Hooks Re

JESSE HADOOCK

By Bev Norwood St." Reporter

Some 18 months ago, with Wake Forest at the pinnacle of college golf,.JMekeiDIi 6ii"ween two associates led to the departure of coach Jesse Haddock. the person most responsible for the Deacons' success.

Yesterday, both men - Haddock and athletic director Gene Hooks - said they had made mis­takes and that they want to start over.

The controversy may not be over.

All were silent about Ron Roberts, wbo had little time and many problems as the Deacons' golf coach. In a prepared statement, Hooks said that, as of two days ago, Roberts ' " employment at Wake Forest bas been terminated."

There was no further explanation and no com­

ment to questions about the reasons (or Oral Roberts' dismissal. Roberts, who refused an he's ~ffer to become athletic business manager, also Itl declined to elaborate. peop'

Haddock will return Monday to his office in been Reynolds gym. Hade

" I'm willing to say, yes, I made a mistake," wher Haddock said. "There were mistakes made, and do ft I made a big one. " In

most"I think we all kind of backed ourselves into a pres: comer," Hooks said. golf "I'm most fortunate to be given an opportuni· and '

ty to come back to Wake Forest," Haddock "I said. "I know of no other coach who has left an prog institution and been able to return. I am most relai grateful. " " I

Salary was the major issue, at least publicly, that, when Haddock leU,-Wake Forest to coach at "J~

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eady to Start Over Oral Roberts University, the first of three jobs talk baseball people once called "Stengelese." . he's held since. For the most part, conversation was in a

It became apparent later, if not then to some more serious vein. .. people, that a personality conflict may have "When Jesse left, there was a lot of emotion been as big a source of discontent as money. regarding his departure," Hooks said. "JesseHaddock may have indirectly referred to that found he had left something very special atwhen he remarked, "I am happy I am wanted. I Wake Forest and wanted to return. We found wedo feel I am wanted." . had something very special in Jesse, and

In welcoming HaddoCk, one of the school's wanted him to return." most recognizable public figures, .Hooks ex­ "In my leaving Wake Forest, there was a lot pressed a new awareness of the importance of of emotion, a lot on my part, " Haddockgolf at Wake Forest, as a source of both pride responded. "You can't be with an institution and revenue. since you were 17 years old without having a "I have asked him to help not only in the golf

.":." ~:::great feeling like you're part of a family. program, but in fund-raising and public x-relations," Hooks said. "As for myself and Dr. Hooks, I think I can f

"If public relations means talking, I can do best express it this a way. We're like brothers. <>

that," Haddock said, reverting to his renowned While sometimes brothers don't see eye-to-eye, "Jesse-isms," that humorous kind of dl>uble- See Haddock, Page 46 GENE.- HOOKS

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and they have disagreements, they will even­tually get back together."

Haddock came to Wake Forest as a farm boy from Greenville, N. C., and except for one brief period, had been with the school since enrolling in the late 1940's. Hooks was a contemporary, an All-America third baseman from Rocky Mount on the Deacon baseball team.

Hooks joined the physical education faculty, and then became athletic director. in 1964. Had­dock had various jobs in the athletic department before replacing Horace " Bones" McKinney, who was better-known as a basketball coach, as golf coach in 1960.

When Haddock took over, golf at Wake Forest had been in a decline for a decade, ever since that brief fling at national prominence when athl~tic director Jim Weaver recruited amateur star Buddy Worsham. who brought along a friend, Amold Paimer.

Haddock took advantage of Palmer's emerg­ing fame and Palmer's cooperation. But most of all, Haddock's diligent work produced the most successful athletic teams Wake Forest had ever known.

By thesummerof 1976, the Deacons had claim to 26 AU-America golfers, 11 ACe titles and two national championships. Haddock also was twIce the NCAA golf coach of the year, and was known by people wherever golf was played, around the world. The' Times of London had news of his departure.

Haddock coached at Oral Roberts for four months, spent seven months with a golf management company in Cleveland, and has operated a wholesale pharmaceutical firm in Winston-Salem since the summer. He plans to continue in that business.

Mutual friends apparently worked to sooth the mfeelings between Hooks and Haddock. Both denied there was out-and-out pressure to have Haddock restored to his job.

"I don't think pressure is the proper word," Hooks said. "Most of the alumni we know are mutual friends. There were not a lot of letters or calls, and I haven't noticed any particular bitterness. They're all big people, and wanted what was best for Wake Forest, not Jene Had­dock or Gene Hooks.

"The main thing was Jesse moved back to the community. He joined the Stadium Club and began taking part in community affairs."

Hqak! said .he did not expect Haddock's job would be easy, particularly since the NCAA's scholarship limits are proving more and more to be an equalizer .

"All I can say II that I'll do my tlest," laid Haddock, taking over a squad that was lOtb In the NCAA last year, when it alao lost the ACC ti-Ue for the first time in 10 years. It was a con­woversial season in which All-America Bob Byman quit school in a disagreement with Roberts.

This past fall, the Deacons' best finish was se­rond behind Ohio State in the River City Inter­collegiate, a tournament that also included defending NCAA champion Houston. All­America Gary- Hallberg, Scott Hoeh, Gary Pinns and Jess Bailes are on the team, as well as four freshmen whom Roberts recruited.

"I may have a change in my coaching philosophy. We all do from time to time," .Had­dock said, revealing he would put an added .. ­emphasis on academics.

It was just another way Haddock and Hooks demonstrated they had learned from ex­perience.

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DREAMER: Haddock's Vision Has Triumphed ." .... DelHI .IOURNAL REPORTER

Jesse Haddock had been on the job as golf coach at Wake Forest University only briefly in 1960 when an issue of GolfDigest arrived in the mail and caught his eye.

Pictured on the cover was Jay Sigel, an outstanding junior golfer who would lOOn become the recruiting target of college golf coaches throughout the country.

Haddock already knew of Siler, talents and promise, of course, but the cover afford­r-...,..----:---, ed Haddock the oppor­

tunity to dream dreams and begin chasing them.

<•..•.(~'.'. . •.,•. He ahowed the pock­et-size magazine to a \

t member of the university adm.ini.sttation.

"I mentioned that I'd like to see Jay come to Wake Foreat," Haddock ~~:~ said recently. "I thought we'd be deserving of

..... IIADDOOI( each other. I told hbn I'd like to see this program go, and we needed to go for the best, because golf was juat perfect for a small private school in every way.

''He aorta laughed and said, 'Well, you're a young coach. Don't get your hopes up too high.' "

nDRTY YEARS LATER, Jesse Had­

TIURTY YEARS LATER, Jeue Had· dodr. ia about te be iDdU'Cllld into hia fourth Hall of Fame, and the reason for it all Is told in that one story.

Haddock never backed down in his quest for excellence. He realized that he was sitting on a golfing gold mine at Wake Forest, he went out and did the digging, and he wound up striking it rich. The nugget» are h ighly visible both on the PGA Tour and in the Wake Forest trophy case.

Sigel didwind up enrolling at Wake Forest as Haddock's first official recruit. He would become Haddock's first golf AII·American, and would lead the Deacons to Haddock's first ACC championship in his first season on varsity.

FROM THOSE BEGJNN1NGS, Wake Forest reached legitimate dynasty status later under Haddock. Wake has won three .NCAA championships, in 1974, '75 and '86, and its 15 Atlantic Coast Conference cham· pionships included a record 10 straight from 1967·76. Wake golfers have attained All· American star:us 63 times in Haddock's 30 yean, 17 on the first team.

His list of lettermen reads like a Who's Who of golf: Curtis Strange, Lanny Wad· kins, Jay Haas, Scott Hoch, Jack Lewia, Jim Simons, Joe Inman. Gary Hallberg, Bob By. \,man, Chris Kite, Leonard Thompson, Eddie Pearce, Robert Wrenn, BUiy Andrade...

"I arew up with quite a bit of intensity," said Haddock, a native of Greenville. "That was just part of my upbringing. Whatever I get involved with, I like to see it developed to the very best. And this has been my opportu· nity, through golf and working with these young golfers."

This week, Haddock and Eunies Futch, Evelyn "Eckie" Jordan, Jack Murdock and Ned Jarrett wUl be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies are scheduled for Thursday eve· nina in Raleigh.

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hit ita peak, in the middle of the 10­HADDOCK year ACC domination, in the early

70s with Strange, Jay Haas, Byman Continued Fr. PI" 29 and David Thore.

Haddock has previously been en­shrined in the Wake Forest Univer­sity Sports Hall of Fame, the Caroli­nas Golf Hall of Fame, and the Na­tional Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

"It's exciting," Haddock said. "I'm looking forward to it. There are times when I have some quiet time, and you just feel how fortunate you are that you probably had a record enough to be considered and select­ed. And I'm really thrilled to be go­ing in with the other four, because I've known them all for many years.

"I don't want to get carried away with it. I'd like to be portrayed as a humble person. But I am also a proud person, and I'm extremely proud of the plaeyrs who have come out of this program, and I hope ­and I am told - that they realize the importance of the coaching and lead­ership that they had while they were a part of the program had a lot to do with their success."

HADDOCK'S SUCCESS origi­nated in his ability to recognize the vast potential of the golf program at Wake Forest.

He was a classmate and one-time roommate ofArnold Palmer at Wake Forest in the late 1940s and early '50s, and when he was named coach, he immediately set out to make full use of Palmer's association with the university.

Palmer immediately responded, donating money to establish the Buddy Worsham Scholarship Fund in Haddock's first season. Palmer has continued to lend visual, vocal and economic lSUpport to the program ever since.

Haddock explained his thinking. "Wake Forest had the most visible

golfer of all time before I ever started coaching," he sud. "I don't think we had done as much about it as could have been done, and that was what I intended to do. I went to the mem­bers of the athletic administration, and I told them we weren't doing what we should be doing.

"Here was a man who had just won his second Masters, the most visible man in golf, and we needed to say, 'If he came to Wake and had the success he had, why couldn't others? There must be something right about this school, Arnold Palmer's doing pretty good.' And that's the way I started out in my recruiting."

He also began a recruiting strategy geared to groups, bringing iIi strong classes and keeping them intact, let­ting them develop and mature to­gether. Sigel and Ken Folkes were followed by a class made up of Lewis, Inman and Thompson in 1%7. Wad~ kins. Simons and Pearce arrived three years later. The program then

The 1974 team gave Haddock his first national title with a record 33­stroke victory, and Strange won the individual title. The '75 team repeat­ed, with Haas winning the individual championship.

"Those were the best teams ever to play college golf," Haddock said. "That's when we were at the height of our success. But everybody before them had a part to do with that. It was not just the players at the time. If the other players hadn't done what they had done, I doubt that we would had had the interest in the Wake Forest golf program.

"Somehow I convinced the few in the beginning to be a part of us. And then they succeeded, and it made it more interesting for Jack Lewis, Leonard Thompson and Joe Inman to want to be part of the program. And as they succeeded, it made it a lot easier for Lanny Wadkins and Jim Simons, and then as they succeeded, it made it much easier to get Curtis and Jay and Byman and those guys."

I,HE HAS ONLY one regret as he

nears the end of his c08ching career. He never played golf while in col­

lege. pkking up the game later in life, and he feels that his teaching ability has somehow been obscured because of that.

Haddock will irldeed be remem­bered more as a recruiter, motivator, disciplinarian and coordinator than as a teacher.

"I get articles like the Pittsburgh Press a few days ago and they make me the big father who's done this and that, the great man, and then the boys were kidding about it (his golf game)," he said. "You know. it's a great artiele, but it's insulting in a way, that you don't play, you don't know anything about it. People think of me as the coordinator and the father, that sort of thing, and there's much more to it than that.

"When I started coaching golf, it's true, I did not know much about it. . But that was 30 years ago. A lot of the older fellows remember the time when I was naive to the physical game. Yet as they have, as years have passed, I think I have gained a knowledge of the physical as well as the mental part of the game. I think you have to. To be exposed for 30 i

years you must have been very dumb not to have learned something. I guess if I could say one thing that would get out of line as a humble statement, I think I know more about the physical than most people have given me credit for. I've got to. And the proof of that is the success we've had."

That success will be recognized again this week.

Wednesday: Ned Jarrett.

Wake Fo~est Jesse Haddock,/Golf Coach

1974 Coach Of The Year (Golf Coaches Assn. of America)

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JESSE HADDOCK

As J. Edgar Hoover probably once said, you have to spend some days on the road seeing the more cau~e for optimism than all but a few can tell much about a p~son by reading his family physicians who prescribe my drugs." schools. mail. Yesterday, J~sse H~ddock got three Haddock 's days have been hectic, yet produc- "I could not be more pleased with their at-letters of partlcular mterest . tive. He's already managed to add one golfer to titude, in every way from every member of the

From Sou a , a golfer who played the Deacon stable, and figures to get two or team," Haddock says, and for now he considers against Wa Forest seve seasons ago sent three more , some without scholarships. "It's that most important. ' 'I've told them, 'Let's along a $5 IOn to the Deacon really been necessary to be going more than 100 don't worry about an invitation to the NCAA. program. per cent," says Haddock, Who took over only a We'll just take each tournament and each round

few days before the NCAA's open-season on and prepare for it as best we can.' " From Tennessee, a mother related her son's signings began.

reaction to their visit to Winston-Salem, "Mom, He knows some, such as Hallberg and Hoch, you've just met the premier golf coach in the "I've found a number of coaches were press- as well as if he'd been the coach all along. He country." ing the young players to sign on that date. I've has general impressions of the others. He will

been on the telephone, calling these young ' need more time, however, to have a reallyFrom Oklahoma, a rival coach said the same, players and urging them, if they would, if they authoritative view of the Deacons and their

if not as well as that youngster. could, not to yield to the pressure and that 1 competition. would be back in touch with them as soon as 1 A h th' If Haddock' U* * * could" s muc as elr go games, WI

. A month into his job, Haddock hardly has had . be assessing their maturity and temperament, time even to read his mail. In essence, he's been Haddock says there has been a "revitalization and learning to motivate the various players in trying to start two jobs at once. He began a of interest" and that seems obvious on all various situations. As an example from his wholesale pharmaceutieal company four levels. "More than I ' anticipated," Haddock former players, Jack Lewis might have needed months ago, before Wake Forest officials asked - says. "From townspeople on the street and in quiet encouragement, while Leonard Thompson him to·('eturn to coaching golf, the job he held restaurants, 1 hear it everywhere 1 go. It's to responded better th stern criticism. And for 17 years. "Like most new businesses," Had- the point I feel pressure because 1 don't want to depending on the tournament and opponent •

. dock says, "it isn't self-sustaining yet. If I bad let those people down. We can still have the Haddock might encourage the Deacons one time let it go, 1 would have lost everything 1 had in- success we once had , but it's going to take hard and kick their rear-ends the next. vested." work. The tremendous reaction is just one more

For now, though, Jesse Haddock can only say reason I'm going to give it all I've got to see that It was agreed that Haddock could continue he's glad to be back. "The decision wasn't made the program is successful." selling drugs while coaching, but so far there for what was best for Jesse, but for what was haven't been enough hours for both . "I've been As yet, Haddock has not even ventured to best for Wake Forest," he says. "I'm glad and 1 going most days till all bours of the night, " he guess how the Deacons will do this spring. He hope I'm right, that 1 can prove it was the right says, "and most of my hours have been spent prObably never will, although with Gary decision. That is my feeling and 1 don't mean it coaching golf . I've had to let my little pharmacy· Hallberg, Scott Hoch and Gary Pinns - not to to be cocky. 1 mean to be very humble but business fall behind, 1 realize now I'm going to mention the four freshmen - Wake Forest has honest."

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Haddock to Head I Dystrophy :Marches \ Jesse Haddock, associate athletic director of Wake F.arest~. has been nii'ii'rnClcliainnan of the local marches against dystrophy sponsored by the Northern Pie d m 0 n t Chapler oC Muscular D y s l r 0 p h Y Aisociations of America.

R.L. Swing. the chapter president. said the campaign will be Nov. 3-11 with volunteer marchers idtC'n­tified by a red and white muscular dystrophy badge.

The door-to-door marches are the major fund-raising events for MDAA . Funds can t rib ute d allow the associations to support free patient services for victims of dystrophy and related neuromuscular disease and to finance research projects.

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Wake's Baddoek Named Spring Coaeh of Year Jesse Haddock, g 0 I f

coach at Wake Forest University. has bee n named spring sports coach of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference area.

The award covers all spring sports. not just golf and includes all the states and conferences in the Atlantic Coast area, not just the ACC.

The plaque is presented by Coach and Athlete Magazine.

Haddock has been golf coach at Wake Forest since 1960 and though most coaches mark the years they win conference titles. it would be s imp I e r for Haddock to list the seasons he has not won.

The Deacons have been ACC champions 8 of the 14 years that Haddock has coached. In 1973, the Deacons won for the seventh straight year and took th etitle by a «-stroke margin. a record margin.

In addition. Wake Forest golfers this season won the Palmetto Invitational, the Big Four. the Furman Intercollegiate and the B team won the Red Fox in Tryon.

The only tournament the Deacons did not win was

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finished second there. I, Jay Haas was named to

the All-America s qua d (third team), the only freshman so honored.

Haddock has never had a lOSing season and has never finished lower than fourth in the ACC. His. teams have competed in the NCAA championships 10 times. Twice his team finished second (1969 and 1970). In 1973, the Deacon team finished 19th.