LIVING LEGEND

JOURNAL PHOTO BY ALUE BROWN Haddock. who .... won three rNItiona. champion.hip. and 15 ACC titles and who h.. coached 23 All-America at Wake Forest. will retire at the end of this season. _~who"" thrM lMItIonei chemplo...... end 15 ACe tItIea end who h_ coeched 23 AII-AmerIcM at Welte Foreat. will retire at the end 01 tllie ..-on. Haddock Made Coaching Golf a High-Profile Career esse Haddock saw his first golf as his substitute. He was the natural, ob­ said. "It was a painful time for me, match from the back of a pickup vious and only choice. very painful." truck hau.ling fertilizer to his fam­ That was 23 All-Americas, 15 ACC ti­ Wake Forest's 1992 publicity bro­ J . s tobacco farm in Pitt County. tles and three national championships chure annointed Haddock a DYing legend. Two months from now, Haddock will ago. That was after Arnold Palmer but Some folks believe that Haddock ­ load up his luxury sedan and roll down before Wake Forest became synonymous even more than Houston's Dave Williams the highway toward Florida, toward re­ with dimpled white balls, before Jay Si­ - invented the golf coaching profes­ tirement from a menial job that he trans­ gel and Lanny Wadldns and Curtis sion. fonned into a consuming, high-profile Strange. ~ "It's his whole life," Strange said re­ career. faddock bas coacMd the team every cently. "He cares so much about it. Golf coach was once considered a year since then except for 1977, when a That's neat. It wasn't a passing fancy contradiction in terms. You could play dispute with Athletics Director Gene for him, ajob. It was his family." golf, but you didn't coach golf, at least Hooks over money and power prompted David Thore said that Haddock led not in any conventional way. The golf Haddock never knocked the system, Haddock to sign on at Oral Roberts with a firm hand. "He was very much a Icoacb secured a large vehicle :or two" but he chauged it.soon aftertaldng over University. He was rehired after fonner father image for a lot of us," Thore out a travel advance, bo.l8ttt ba'in- ' "in 1960 when Bones McKinney discov­ players lobbied the administration. said. "He was pretty strict. We feared Iburgers and dawdled while his young ered that modem basketNll required "Your wound heals and you just Lwin"p~ pursued their diversion. spring recruiting. Haddock had served.. hope tllere's very little scar," Haddock See IAWUIU, ..... II

.­ MnNSTON~EM JOURNAL Sunday, May 3, 1992 "I was so mad, it was one of the that 400 yards was the distance few times I couldn't talk," Haddock from the tobacco bam to the field. JUWLINGS said. "I reached down and grabbed Haddock grew up in the Wmter­ f4aIJ •• f... PIp 81 the cards. I tore 'em up and threw ville township just outside Green­ 'em. I started giving it to 'em: 'If ville, the oldest of four sons. His biro, but the fear was in a good way. you so and sos think you can play parents, Robert and Maybelle, af! demanded respect, and he got golf, I can probably go get the cad­ worked hard to maintain a decent His biggest asset was knowing dies at Old Town and beat you. I standard of living. " I was the little ~ow to handle people and motivate know they can play tonk better than boy that came out of the Depres­ ·em." you can.'" sion, but they were the people that . Haddock has his name plastered Haddock soon turned his atten­ lived in the Depression," Haddock 4p the school's unusual golf center, tion to recruiting. He bad only one said. ere players \ and one-half scholarships. He Times got even tougher when he can hit 4-irons ... : picked up a pocket-sized copy of was 15 and his father lost every­ . der cover of Ir·,~__ . Golf Digest. The cover featured a thing except the farm by speculat­ j:"rage bays . ­ teen-ager who had shot phenome­ ing in cotton futures. d;lring rain­ 4., \ nal scores at a tournament in Colo­ Haddock played baseball and _ nns. He be­ rado, Jay Sigel. basketball at Winterville High lPngs to four ~ Haddock mentioned to a Wake School, where kids went barefoot­ ~ of fame, Forest staff member that Sigel was ed in the late spring. He wore shoes .d he belongs the kind of player he hoped to re­ only when going to Rose Hill Bap­ to the past, to cruit but the man dismissed this tist Church. the school's notion as an absurd fantasy. Had­ His mother had attended college roots in Wake i ~ dock stewed. for one year. He still doesn't know County. He was AIIIIOUI PAWD Sigel played in the Bing Crosby why he picked Wake Forest about even able to handpick his succes­ Pro-Am at Pebble Beach, Calif., the time the 30 kids in the Class of sor, Jack Lewis Jr., an early star that winter. Haddock phoned him '44 graduated. • and the associate head coach the in Monterrey. "The call cost $3 and "It was a new life for me," Had­ past three seasons. some cents," Haddock said. dock said. A few months later, Had­ Scott Hoch and other alwnni en­ "Months later at a social, I was dock was dra(ted and assigned to dorsed the transition plan soon af­ made fun of. One of our fInancial duty in Ge~y, where the fight­ ter Haddock outlined it to President officers got on me for being callous ing had ended. Thomas K. Hearn Jr. and two trust­ with the telephone, calling Monter­ After returning to Wake Forest's ees in the Firestone Cabin at Au­ rey. As.far as I know, that was our old campus, Haddock took a job in gqsta National Golf Club during a first expense in recruiting." the athletic department to help pay M:..sters stonn delay. "Jack's going Sigel committed to Houston but for his education. He ran errands to do a greatjob, but Jesse's one of eventually transferred to Wake For­ for Athletics Director Jim Weaver a kind," Hoch said. est and became the cornerstone for and Murray Greason, the basket­ Haddock, 65, is a unique fellow, the first outst.aI¥:ling teams. ball coach. He drove Peahead a trafty, gt!nial man who kept spot­ Walker, ~e renowned football t~ his openings until he advanced ••• coach, to· catch the Silver M~teor !rem gofer to golf figurehead. Haddock turned Palmer's friend­ train out of Raleigh. "He's a character, a real-life char­ ship, fame and loyalty into an asset. Haddock organized team manag­ acter," Wadkins said. "He's always Palmer passed through Wmston­ ers, ran the equipment room and had these sayings and a funny way Salem after the second of his four helped the trainer. And he moved o( putting things, but he has al~ Masters championships in 1960, up as he methodically advanced to­ said what players needed to hear, and Haddock convinced him that a ward graduation in 1952, taking whether, they thought so at the time prominent golf program would courses in the spring and summer. or not. And his competitiveness has help the school. Palmer called his "I finally worked my way from the been underrated." agent and promptly donated the bottom of the gym to the offices at The promotion may not have first $500 to a scholarship fund the front of the gym," he said. seemed like such a giant step at the named for his roommate, Buddy Haddock swung his first golf club time. Haddock was named head Worsham, who had died in a car at the Paschal Golf Course near coach on March 13, two days be­ wreck during their college days. campus. He also monitored a fore Wake Forest opened the sea­ The scholarship - often mistak­ boarding house where Palmer and son in chilly College Park, Md. enly called the Palmer scholarship Worsham lived on the second floor, The team stayed in a huge room - became a centerpiece in Had­ just above him. Contrary to popular at Byrd Stadium with two bare light dock's recruiting pitches. "Arnold legend, Haddock never roomed bulbs and 15 bunk beds. "The Palmer came to school here," Had­ with Palmer. Chicken House," they called it. dock told prospects who developed Haddock set the tone for his The boys kept talking about gold­ into PGA millionaires. "If it w;lS coaching career during his frrst trip en arches, and they coaxed Had­ good for Arnold, couldn't it be good to Maryland, but that was hardly dock into feeding them at the first for you?" the last time he stomped his foot in McDonald's restaurant he had ever Palmer, Wadkins and other golf­ protest. seen. At dusk, the players persuad­ ers of various achievement return Few players can remember any ed Haddock to let them visit Wash­ almost every year for a pro-am. specific rules. "Basically," Thore ington, where the burlesque show GolfIng alwnni have pledged $3 said, "it was Haddock's way or the at the old Gaiety Theater offered million toward endo~ the pro­ highway. Back then we were more sights worth reciting on campus. gram, and the goal has been raised scared, but now we know how big­ lie set 10:30 p.m. as the curfew, to $7 million. hearted a guy he is, that he's more and at 11 he was standing at the Haddock stands in the middie of talk than action. He threatened us a door, starting to fume. At midnight, this financial and familial network, lot, but he never went through with he saw headlights. When the play­ a remarkable fact. He is a left-hand­ much of it." ers walked in, one of them inunedi­ ed golfer who never mastered the Strange, one of the most ram­ ately asked, "Who's got the sport and virtually quit playing 17 bunctious players, insists that he cards?" years ago. As a child, he thought was never assessed the ultimate Haddock penalty. "You wouldn't The next day, he told a friend: dare be caught doing anything," "Everything was fine when I came Strange said. back last night, but I went out to get DERBY Haddock had dress codes. He in my car this morning and all the preached how manners reflect ma­ air was out of my tires. Somebody turity. He made the players stay must have sneaked into the parking and $7.60, the biggest payoff since near their rooms instead of ventur­ lot. " Ferdinand paid $37.40 in J986. ing out to bars on road trips. Strange credits Haddock with Before the race, Lynn Whiting, The players tested the hot water giving him a golfing routine and a Lil E. Tee's trainer, had said: " If, from time to time. Strange and Jay strong mental approach. "In his Arazi is enough horse to sit back Haas would fmd some grass near own way, he was a good psycpolo­ there and circle the field again, he their rooms and hit wedge shots gist and didn't know it," Strange is truly a super horse." over nearby restaurants, astound­ said. "He would talk things out, and "Everybody else will be running ing players from other teams with he got his point across. He saw the for second," Arazi'sjockey, Pat Va­ their gall. talent in me and kept me on the lenzuela, had said. " Lex Alexander and I broke a right course. You knew wherever After the race, he said: " I still feel window out in San Diego at our you turned, he was going to be he is the greatest horse I have rid­ hotel," Strange said. "The only there." den, and I just wish he could have thing that saved us was that we won This ubiquitousness took a funny proved it today to the public and the national championship. I'm twist at a Wake Forest football the people around the world." sure that window cost $500." game. " David Thore and I had a Valenzuela felt that Arazi got Haddock also detested academic little too much to drink and we tired in the latter stages of the race problems. When Gary Hallberg were, as they say, holding up and added: "It's too bad we didn't flirted with flunking out, Haddock Groves Stadium by leaning up get another race into him." told him to stay in his room. When against one of these pillars," "I always stated emphatically Haddock called to check up on him, Strange said. "We turned around that there was a Derby out there. Hallberg was gone. Had dock and Jesse was on the other side of with my name on it," said Day, who tracked him down at a bar near the the same pillar, holding up the oth­ went into Derby Week with 1,090 coliseum and had him paged. er side. He was drunk as a hoot owl, victories at Churchill Downs - but Hallberg slipped out the back and he didn't know we were not the one he wanted most. "When door, but Haddock trailed him back drunk." I put the hammer do,,?, on Lil E. to his dorm. "I had just had a cap It's hard to imagine the day when Tee, he kicked." t put on a tooth that day," Haddock Haddock will no longer hold up the recalled. "I was asking Gary how he Wake Forest golf program, but that "(ARAZI) DIDN'T HAVE any could do this and slammed my fISt will come soon. He wants to stay punch at the top of the strtech," into the side of his bunk bed. The out of Lewis' way and avoid the Day said. cap fell off, but I caught itin midair appearance of looking over his Lil E. Tee carried 126 pounds' and kept on yelling. Gary told peo­ shoulder. over the 1y.. miles in 2:04 and ­ ple later that he was so scared that He wants to visit his two daugh­ earned $724,800 for owner W. Cal he almost jumped out of his win­ ters and travel with his Ylife to their Partee, 82, who operates oil, bank­ dow, which was on the second vacation home at Grandfather ing and lumber business with head­ floor." Mountain. He knows he will spend quarters in Magnolia, Ark. The last lots of time with his daughter her­ time Partee sent a horse to the Der­ ••• ry, who married golfer Jim Simons by was 1984, when At the thresh­ With his halting molasses voice, and lives less than two miles away old finished third. investigative eyes and penchant for in Jupiter, Fla. She is fighting can­ At the Threshold is Lil E. Tee's decorum, Haddock has been the cer, and Jesse and Kay Haddock sire. butt of a few pranks and embel­ help take care of her children. One other jinx followed ~ lished tales. i Haddock will have plenty of time yesterday - no Derby winner halt Trying to fire up his players at for memories, perhaps none sweet­ ever come out of the No. 17 post Pinehurst one day, he punched a er than that afternoon in 1986 position. wall in the Carolina Hotel, knock­ when the Deacons surged from 16 While many people probably left ing in the sheet rock around the strokes behind and won the NCAA the Downs disappointed and ligh~ light switch. As partofhis penance, tiUe at Bermuda Run. in their wallets, there had to be ;j. golfer Gary Pions tried to repair the Billy Andrade remembers the certain satisfaction: . damage, using toothpaste as spack­ glorious moment. "It had been a The failure of an international ling. long time since' his last champion­ star was eclipsed by the success of There was the time at a stoplight ship in 1975, and a lot of people a Kentucky favorite. when Haddock saw two Hell's An­ were down on him," Andrade said. gels wearing football jerseys. Had­ "People wondered if he was re­ KENTUCKY DERBY FINISH dock made a smart remark. One cruiting the right kids or if he was a ngry biker p ulled Haddock too old to be relating to these . 1. lil E. Tee through the car window before young kids. It was nothing like that. 2. Casual lies speeding off. Finally safe, Haddock It was just bad timing and competi­ 3. Dance Aoor 4. Conte Of Savoya turned to his companion and said, tion. All of a sudden, he wasn't 5. Pine Bluff "Touchy, wasn't he?" winning like he had. I've always felt 6. AI Sabtn Haddock was a member of the him winning that was the icing on 7. Dr DeVIOUS 8. Arazi NCAA selection committee one the cake. And that was the day he 9. My l uck Runs North year when N.C. State players saw gave me the best advice I've ever 10. Technology North Carolina's coach lobbying gotten in my life." 11. West by West 12. DeVIl His Due him in a restuarant in Orangeburg, Was it a positive mental cue? A 13. Thyer S .C. The p layers, competing swing suggestion? A putting tip? 14. Ecstatic Ride against Carolina for the bid, let the Andrade laughed. " He knew we 1 5. SIr Pinder 16. Pistols and Roses air out of Haddock's tires. He drove were going to do some serious cele­ 17. Snappy landing all the way back to his motel with­ brating," Andrade said. "He told 18. Disposal out noticing. me to take a cab." ,

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FRIDAY, DECE~BER 9,1977­ Haddock, Hooks Re By Bev Norwood ment to questions about the reasons (or Oral St." Reporter Roberts' dismissal. Roberts, who refused an he's Some 18 months ago, with Wake Forest at the ~ffer to become athletic business manager, also Itl peop' pinnacle of college golf,.JMekeiDIi 6ii"ween two declined to elaborate. associates led to the departure of coach Jesse Haddock will return Monday to his office in been Reynolds gym. Hade Haddock. the person most responsible for the wher Deacons' success. "I'm willing to say, yes, I made a mistake," Haddock said. "There were mistakes made, and do ft Yesterday, both men - Haddock and athletic I made a big one. " In most director Gene Hooks - said they had made mis­ "I think we all kind of backed ourselves into a pres: takes and that they want to start over. comer," Hooks said. The controversy may not be over. golf "I'm most fortunate to be given an opportuni· and ' All were silent about Ron Roberts, wbo had ty to come back to Wake Forest," Haddock "I little time and many problems as the Deacons' said. "I know of no other coach who has left an prog golf coach. In a prepared statement, Hooks said institution and been able to return. I am most relai that, as of two days ago, Roberts' " employment grateful. " " I at Wake Forest bas been terminated." Salary was the major issue, at least publicly, that, JESSE HADOOCK There was no further explanation and no com­ when Haddock leU,-Wake Forest to coach at "J ~ ..

Columns Srores s Standings 977-PAGE41 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. "Jesse Haddock may have indirectly referred to that found he had left something very special at when he remarked, "I am happy I am wanted. I Wake Forest and wanted to return. We found we do 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 pressed a new awareness of the importance of "In my leaving Wake Forest, there was a lot golf at Wake Forest, as a source of both pride of emotion, a lot on my part," Haddock and revenue. responded. "You can't be with an institution "I have asked him to help not only in the golf since you were 17 years old without having a .":." ~::: program, but in fund-raising and public great feeling like you're part of a family. 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 Haddock Set to Stari Over As ,~~ew f9!~si Golf Coac Continued From Page 41 Mutual friends apparently worked to sooth the and they have disagreements, they will even­ mfeelings between Hooks and Haddock. Both tually get back together." denied there was out-and-out pressure to have Haddock came to Wake Forest as a farm boy Haddock restored to his job. from Greenville, N. C., and except for one brief "I don't think pressure is the proper word," period, had been with the school since enrolling Hooks said. "Most of the alumni we know are in the late 1940's. Hooks was a contemporary, an mutual friends. There were not a lot of letters All-America third baseman from Rocky Mount or calls, and I haven't noticed any particular on the Deacon baseball team. bitterness. They're all big people, and wanted Hooks joined the physical education faculty, what was best for Wake Forest, not Jene Had­ and then became athletic director. in 1964. Had­ dock or Gene Hooks. dock had various jobs in the athletic department "The main thing was Jesse moved back to the before replacing Horace " Bones" McKinney, community. He joined the Stadium Club and who was better-known as a basketball coach, as began taking part in community affairs." golf coach in 1960. Hqak! said .he did not expect Haddock's job When Haddock took over, golf at Wake Forest would be easy, particularly since the NCAA's had been in a decline for a decade, ever since scholarship limits are proving more and more that brief fling at national prominence when to be an equalizer. athl~tic director Jim Weaver recruited amateur "All I can say II that I'll do my tlest," laid star Buddy Worsham. who brought along a Haddock, taking over a squad that was lOtb In friend, Amold Paimer. the NCAA last year, when it alao lost the ACC ti- Haddock took advantage of Palmer's emerg­ Ue for the first time in 10 years. It was a con­ ing fame and Palmer's cooperation. But most of woversial season in which All-America Bob all, Haddock's diligent work produced the most Byman quit school in a disagreement with successful athletic teams Wake Forest had ever Roberts. known. This past fall, the Deacons' best finish was se­ By thesummerof 1976, the Deacons had claim rond behind Ohio State in the River City Inter­ to 26 AU-America golfers, 11 ACe titles and two collegiate, a tournament that also included national championships. Haddock also was defending NCAA champion Houston. All­ twIce the NCAA golf coach of the year, and was America Gary- Hallberg, Scott Hoeh, Gary known by people wherever golf was played, Pinns and Jess Bailes are on the team, as well around the world. The' Times of London had as four freshmen whom Roberts recruited. news of his departure. "I may have a change in my coaching Haddock coached at Oral Roberts for fou r philosophy. We all do from time to time," .Had­ months, spent seven months with a golf dock said, revealing he would put an added .. ­ management company in Cleveland, and has emphasis on academics. operated a wholesale pharmaceutical firm in It was just another way Haddock and Hooks Winston-Salem since the summer. He plans to demonstrated they had learned from ex­ continue in that business. perience. WINS'lGJ-SAL£M JClR'W-, May 8, 1990 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 afford­ r-...,..----:---, ed Haddock the oppor­ tunity to dream dreams and begin chasing them. <•..•.(~'.'. . •.,•. He ahowed the pock­ \ et-size magazine to a t member ofthe 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 highly 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. See HADDOCK, PI,. 31 r - hit ita peak, in the middle of the 10­ year ACC domination, in the early HADDOCK 70s with Strange, Jay Haas, Byman Continued Fr. PI" 29 and David Thore. The 1974 team gave Haddock his Haddock has previously been en­ first national title with a record 33­ shrined in the Wake Forest Univer­ stroke victory, and Strange won the sity Sports Hall of Fame, the Caroli­ individual title. The '75 team repeat­ nas Golf Hall of Fame, and the Na­ ed, with Haas winning the individual tional Golf Coaches Association Hall championship. of Fame. "Those were the best teams ever "It's exciting," Haddock said. "I'm to play college golf," Haddock said. looking forward to it. There are "That's when we were at the height times when I have some quiet time, of our success. But everybody before and you just feel how fortunate you them had a part to do with that. It are that you probably had a record was not just the players at the time. If enough to be considered and select­ the other players hadn't done what ed. And I'm really thrilled to be go­ they had done, I doubt that we ing in with the other four, because would had had the interest in the I've known them all for many years. Wake Forest golf program. "I don't want to get carried away "Somehow I convinced the few in with it. I'd like to be portrayed as a the beginning to be a part of us. And humble person. But I am also a then they succeeded, and it made it proud person, and I'm extremely more interesting for Jack Lewis, proud of the plaeyrs who have come Leonard Thompson and Joe Inman out of this program, and I hope ­ to want to be part of the program. and I am told - that they realize the And as they succeeded, it made it a importance ofthe coaching and lead­ lot easier for Lanny Wadkins and Jim ership that they had while they were Simons, and then as they succeeded, a part of the program had a lot to do it made it much easier to get Curtis with their success." and Jay and Byman and those guys." I, HADDOCK'S SUCCESS origi­ HE HAS ONLY one regret as he nated in his ability to recognize the nears the end of his c08ching career. vast potential of the golf program at He never played golf while in col­ Wake Forest. lege. pkking up the game later in life, He was a classmate and one-time and he feels that his teaching ability roommate ofArnold Palmer at Wake has somehow been obscured because Forest in the late 1940s and early of that. '50s, and when he was named coach, Haddock will irldeed be remem­ he immediately set out to make full bered more as a recruiter, motivator, use of Palmer's association with the disciplinarian and coordinator than university. as a teacher. Palmer immediately responded, "I get articles like the Pittsburgh donating money to establish the Press a few days ago and they make Buddy Worsham Scholarship Fund me the big father who's done this in Haddock's first season. Palmer has and that, the great man, and then the continued to lend visual, vocal and boys were kidding about it (his golf economic lSUpport to the program game)," he said. "You know. it's a ever since. great artiele, but it's insulting in a Haddock explained his thinking. way, that you don't play, you don't "Wake Forest had the most visible know anything about it. People golfer of all time before I ever started think of me as the coordinator and coaching," he sud. "I don't think we the father, that sort of thing, and had done as much about it as could there's much more to it than that. have been done, and that was what I "When I started coaching golf, it's intended to do. I went to the mem­ true, I did not know much about it. . bers of the athletic administration, But that was 30 years ago. A lot ofthe and I told them we weren't doing older fellows remember the time what we should be doing. when I was naive to the physical "Here was a man who had just game. Yet as they have, as years have won his second Masters, the most passed, I think I have gained a visible man in golf, and we needed to knowledge of the physical as well as say, 'If he came to Wake and had the the mental part of the game. I think success he had, why couldn't others? you have to. To be exposed for 30 i There must be something right years you must have been very dumb about this school, Arnold Palmer's not to have learned something. I doing pretty good.' And that's the guess if I could say one thing that way I started out in my recruiting." would get out of line as a humble He also began a recruiting strategy statement, I think I know more geared to groups, bringing iIi strong about the physical than most people classes and keeping them intact, let­ have given me credit for. I've got to. ting them develop and mature to­ And the proof of that is the success gether. Sigel and Ken Folkes were we've had." followed by a class made up of Lewis, That success will be recognized Inman and Thompson in 1%7. Wad~ again this week. kins. Simons and Pearce arrived three years later. The program then Wednesday: Ned Jarrett.

Wake Fo~est Jesse Haddock,/Golf Coach 1974 Coach Of The Year (Golf Coaches Assn. of America) H.addocl{: "I Don">t Want to Let People DownY J o. \ - \ '3 -7

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'n­ tified 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.

\• 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 i $', ACC champions 8 of the 14 JESSE HADDOCK years that Haddock has coached. In 1973, the finished second there. I Deacons won for the , seventh straight year and Jay Haas was named to took th etitle by a «-stroke the All-America s qua d margin. a record margin. (third team), the only In addition. Wake Forest freshman so honored. golfers this season won the Haddock has never had a Palmetto Invitational, the lOSing season and has Big Four. the Furman never finished lower than Intercollegiate and the B fourth in the ACC. His. team won the Red Fox in teams have competed in Tryon. the NCAA championships The only tournament the 10 ti mes. Twice his team Deacons did not win was finished second (1969 and the Chris Schenkel (in 1970). In 1973, the Deacon Statesboro. Ga .) and they team finished 19th.