WFU Alumni • 41 Alumni Spotlight

Arnold Palmer

The most engaging, popular and notable ambassador of lose his touch, Palmer returned to Wake For- the sport of golf is , who is also considered the est in 1953 and won the first-ever Atlantic most engaging, popular and notable alumnus of Wake Forest Coast Conference Championship in 1954. He University. No other alumnus has brought more honor and reached the pinnacle of his amateur career prestige to his school than the incomparable golfing great. with a victory in the U.S. Amateur in 1954. Unmatched in his athletic endeavors in terms of both suc- Palmer’s incomparable professional cess and popularity, Palmer is also an accomplished business- career includes 61 United States PGA Tour man, a golf course designer, a spokesman and a family man. victories, 19 wins in foreign or international “There is no question Arnold Palmer has meant a great events, and 12 Senior PGA Tour titles. He has deal to our program at Wake Forest,” says Golf Coach Emeri- won seven majors: the U.S. Open, the British tus Jesse Haddock. “He is a tre- Open twice, and of course, the Masters four mendous ambassador to the times, in 1958, ‘60, ‘62 and ‘64. Only the game of golf and has stayed very PGA Championship trophy has escaped much in touch with our pro- Palmer’s grasp; he placed second in that event gram. There have been many three times. times he has done little things Palmer was a participant in seven Ryder that are so important. He is truly Cup Matches, captaining the 1963 champi- a great man.” onship team. He has earned countless hon- Palmer’s legendary golf ca- ors and awards for his play, including induction in the World and American Golf Halls of reer started at what was then Fame, the PGA Hall of Fame and, of course, the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame. Palmer has Wake Forest College in 1948. also received several honorary degrees, including a Honorary Doctor of Laws from Wake While playing for the Demon Forest, and countless awards for his civic, business and philanthropic endeavors. Deacons he captured the South- In the fall of 1994, an endowed scholarship was established for the Wake Forest golf ern Conference championship in program in Arnold Palmer’s name by the Annenberg Foundation. Palmer himself has en- 1948 and 1949. In 1949 and dowed a memorial scholarship in honor of his boyhood friend and Wake Forest teammate, 1950, he was the NCAA indi- Buddy Worsham. vidual champion along with Named the Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s by the Associated Press and Sportsman of winning the Southern Intercol- the Year by Sports Illustrated in 1960, Palmer has long been recognized as much for the legiate crown in 1950. Follow- attention and goodwill he brought to the game of golf as for his success as a player. Palmer ing a three-year stint in the Coast brings that attention and goodwill to his alma mater as well, including his service as a Guard, during which he did not member of the Board of Trustees.

William B. Greene, Jr. • Wake Forest Golf Alumnus

The College Golf Foundation and Rolex Watch U.S.A. presented Wake Forest alumnus William B. Greene, Jr. with the fifth annual Rolex Achievement Award in June of 2000. Arnold Palmer, who serves as an Honorary Chairman of the College Golf Foundation, presented the award to his fellow Demon Deacon alumnus. The Rolex Achievement Awards honor former collegiate golfers who have achieved excellence in their chosen career (outside of golf) and in doing so, have made a special contribution to society. William B. Greene, Jr. graduated from Wake Forest in 1959 with degrees in history and philosophy. He attended WFU on a basketball and golf scholarship, playing varsity golf his sophomore, junior and senior years. He completed post-graduate work at Wake Forest, Northwestern and Harvard Business School and graduated from Rutgers’ Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer, retiring as a captain. Banking has been Greene’s primary career. At age 26, he was the youngest bank president and CEO in the United States. Greene was a part of the first major banking merger in the U.S. with First Union, which has grown to become the sixth largest bank in America. Greene co- founded the Bank of Tennessee and is currently Chairman of BancTenn Corporation and the Carter County Bank and Carter County BanCorp. Arnold Palmer presents WFU golf alumnus Greene recently donated $5 million to Wake Forest, for which The Psychology and Foreign Language building was named in his honor. A William Greene, Jr. with the member of the Board of Trustees, Greene has chaired the Trustee Investment Policy Committee for the past eight years and is currently co-chair 2000 Rolex Achievement Award. of WFU’s $400 million capital campaign. In 1990, he received WFU’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor bestowed to alumni. Still an active competitive golfer, Greene has represented Tennessee five times on the Mid-South Cup Team, serving as captain once. He was also a member of the Tennessee Amateur Cup seven times, where he also served twice as captain. He won the Tennessee State Senior Four Ball in 1998 and has had four top-ten finishes in the Tennessee State Amateur Championship. As Chairman of the Tennessee Golf Foundation, Greene has been a driving force behind the First Tee Project and the Vinny Links for Kids - country music star Vince Gill’s pro-celebrity golf event which has raised more than $1.7 million for junior golf. 42 • 2002-03 Wake Forest Golf Alumni Spotlight

Jay Haas

Wherever his golf career has taken him, former Demon The lessons that golf provides never really stop, and one Deacon has found success, and he has found it quickly. person who can verify that statement wholeheartedly is former The middle link in one of golf’s most admired dynasties is Wake Forest player and current PGA Tour star Scott Hoch. soft-spoken Illinois title-winner Jay Haas. The nephew of former Hoch is in the prime of his career on the PGA Tour, having pro standout and Masters’ champion , Haas is the earned over $1 million per year in each of the past seven sea- older brother of current Deacon head coach Jerry Haas. Jay sons. He has collected 10 career PGA victories and ranks sev- Haas has become a representative of the high standards of Wake enth on the Tour’s career money winners list. Forest golf on and off the course. Hoch has been a hallmark of consistency over the past Haas came to Wake Forest in 1973 as an excellent all- several years, earning 46 top 10 finishes and at one point mak- around athlete with outstanding prep golf credentials. It didn’t ing 25 consecutive cuts at PGA events. In fact, Hoch has fin- take him long to make his mark on the collegiate scene: he ished among the top 40 money winners on the tour every year claimed the individual Atlantic Coast Conference championship as a freshman that year. In but one since 1982 - a mark of consistency unmatched by any other active player. At the end fact, before he left Wake Forest for the pro ranks in 1976, Haas earned first-team all-America of the 2002 season, Hoch had earned a world ranking of 22nd. honors twice, and captured the 1975 Fred , given annually to the nation’s top One of the most underrated players on the Tour, Hoch began to make a name for himself collegiate player. He claimed victories at a bevy of college tournaments and became one of with his solid play in 1996. He made the cut in 23 of 28 events that year, earning eight top four Deacs to earn individual honors at the NCAA Championships, taking home the indi- 10 finishes and one tournament title at the . He tied for fifth at The vidual title in 1975. Masters and placed seventh at the U.S. Open. Haas’ success on the pro circuit came equally as fast. After earning his tour card in 1976, Hoch built on that success in ‘97, making the cut in all 22 events he entered and record- his initial tour victory came at 1978’s Andy Williams-San Diego Open, the first of his nine pro ing 11 top 10 finishes. He won the in thrilling fashion, sinking a 60- wins. He collected two wins each on the 1981 and ‘82 tours, then added single victories in the foot eagle chip shot on the 18th hole to win by a stroke. He finished in the top five in seven 1987, ‘88, ‘92, and ‘93 seasons. On the 1992 tour, Haas turned in a record-setting four-round other events, including second place at . Hoch even earned a spot total of 263 to capture the title at the Memphis Federal Express St. Jude Classic. His dramatic on the much-heralded 1997 U.S. team and compiled the best individual record of win, finishing a sizzling 21 strokes under par, was a full six strokes better than the event’s the Americans, going 2-0-1 in . previous record. His most recent tour victory came at the 1993 H.E.B. Texas Open. The 1998 season was another strong one for Hoch, as he earned over $1.2 million. He Haas has continued to find success in recent years, finishing among the top 25 money made the cut in 22 of 27 events and posted seven top 10 finishes, including second place at leaders in three of the last seven years and placing in the top five at The Masters in both 1994 the Kemper Open and fifth at The Players Championship. In 1999, Hoch made the cut in 14 and ‘95. The 1999 season saw him earn five top 10 finishes in 24 events, including a third- of 27 events and collected nearly $1.2 million, earning six top 10 finishes and placing 33rd place showings at the PGA Championship and the Doral-Ryder Open. Through the 2002 on the money list. The momentum continued in 2000, when he posted seven top 10 finishes. season, Haas ranked 36th on the PGA Tour all-time money list and owned a No. 127 world Hoch had a banner year in 2001, earning a career-best $2,875,319 (seventh on money ranking. list) and two tournament titles, including the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic. He became Haas is also one-half of one of the Deacs’ most famous golf partnerships. He and fellow the first 45-year old to win twice in same season since in 1990. He followed that Wake Forest great , adopted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame together up with seven top 10 finishes in 2002. in 1987, roomed together Hoch gives much of the credit for his long and successful professional career to his while at the university, trav- decision to attend Wake Forest. “The reason I went to Wake Forest, and the reason that still eled together at the onset of means the most to my career today, was that I would always be playing with the best,” says their professional careers, Hoch. “You can’t help but learn a lot when every time you are on a course, you are playing and have remained very close against the best. to this day. It is that type of “When I went to WFU, I was not on the same level as those players. But I had to make some friendship that exemplifies decisions about pursuing golf as a career, and I decided to test myself against the very best. the unique nature of Wake I went to where the competition was, and by being in that atmosphere, my game developed.” Forest golf. The lessons Hoch learned from his teammates and his coach, Jesse Haddock, became the Haas, 49, is also very ac- foundation for a multi-million dollar career. And that career enabled him to turn a family tive in charity events. He and crisis into a lesson for athletes everywhere. When Hoch’s son, Cameron, was two years old, he his wife Jan, reside in suffered from a rare bone infection and was hospitalized at the Arnold Palmer Children’s Traveller’s Rest, S.C., and Hospital in Orlando. have five children: Jay, Jr., The experience turned Hoch’s thoughts to the children at the hospital whose recoveries Bill, Haley, Fran and Georgia. were not as certain as Cameron’s. He made a significant contribution to the hospital, and Jay, Jr. is a member of the golf continues a strong and lasting association. His contribution made an immediate impact, team at Augusta State, while and generated publicity that resulted in an even greater response to the hospital’s needs. Bill has followed his father’s “For a professional athlete, I am probably involved more so than most,” says Hoch, “but path to Wake Forest. Last it happened by accident. Through my son’s illness, I learned firsthand what was needed. I season, Bill was named to the would have been involved in the community somehow, but Cameron brought it close to All-America squad. Jay, Sr. home, and we learned a lesson about the despair and discomfort that the kids in the hospital and Bill are believed to be were feeling. I believed in it, and I’ve expanded it, and I’ve been fortunate to have the the first father-son duo to resources to do so.” both earn first-team All- Those resources were garnered from a successful career of lessons learned, a career that America honors. seems headed for more success in the future. WFU Golf Alumni • 43 Alumni Spotlight

Len Mattiace

Former Demon Deacon Len Mattiace provides a telling Wake Forest alum Jay Sigel is becoming as well-known a lesson in persistence, hard work, and dedication. Senior Tour success story as he was the nation’s premier ama- A former All-American who helped Wake Forest to the 1986 teur player. Add to that a successful business career and his NCAA Championship, Mattiace weathered some setbacks in service as one of Wake Forest’s most loyal ambassadors, and his early professional career and has since emerged as one of you have a Demon Deacon success story. the PGA Tour’s up-and-coming golfers. Sigel’s story is well-known. An All-American and Atlantic Mattiace earned his first PGA Tour card in Q-School in Coast Conference champion at Wake Forest, he decided against 1992 and finished 160th on the 1993 PGA money list. He a professional golf career after suffering a severed nerve in his returned to the Nike Tour in 1994, but suffered a setback when left hand. Instead, he kept his golf game sharp as one of the he underwent carpal tunnel surgery. Mattiace came back to nation’s premier amateurs, playing for the U.S. post a solid year on the 1995 Nike Tour and requalify for the teams from 1977 through 1993 and winning U.S. Amateur PGA Tour in 1996, enjoying a breakthrough season which included two top five finishes. titles in 1982 and 1983 as well as the 1979 British Amateur championship. He capped his 1996 season by winning the Compaq World Putting Championship in Meanwhile, his insurance business and family life thrived in Berwyn, Pa. December, which earned him the title of “World’s Greatest Putter” after winning the event by In 1994, however, he relinquished his amateur status and qualified for the PGA Senior two strokes over Taylor Smith. Tour. An instant success, he won the 1994 GTE West Classic and ranked 12th on the money list. Mattiace posted another strong season on the tour in 1997, making the cut in 16 of 35 In 1995, he earned five top 10s, and in 1996 he took second in three events and had 11 other events. He earned one top 10 finish, taking third place at the Disney World Oldsmobile top 10 finishes, placing 10th on the money list. Classic, and placed in the top 25 in nine other events. He took home over $300,000 in The 1997 and 1998 seasons were his most successful, as Sigel earned over $1 million and earnings, placing him 77th on the money list. finished fourth on the money list both years. He won three events in ‘97 – Bruno’s Memorial Mattiace continued to improve his play in 1998, making the cut in 22 of 31 events and Classic, the Kroger Senior Classic, and the Diners Club Matches (with ) – and earning two top 10 finishes to place 68th on the money list. His best showing came at The placed second in two others. In 1998 he was among the top three finishers nine times, winning Players Championship, where he tied for fifth. the Bell Atlantic Classic and the EMC2 Kaanapali Classic. In 1999, he earned six top 10 In 1999, he made the cut in 17 events and earned over $400,000, tying his career best finishes and placed 35th on the money list. After enduring injuries in 2000 and 2001, Sigel finish with a second-place showing at the Sony Open. He also earned a ninth-place finish at was named the Tour’s Comeback Player of the Year in 2002 after winning the Farmers Charity the Southern Farm Bureau Classic and had two other top 25 finishes as well. Classic and posting three other top 10 finishes. Mattiace’s continued work on improving his golf game resulted in a career-high five top- Sigel has turned his hobby into over $7.2 million in career earnings, a figure which ranks 10 finishes in the 2000 season. 16th on the Senior Tour career money list. “My ball striking is better, and my overall game and scoring are better,” said Mattiace “I am a better player now than when I of his recent success. “I’ve worked with Jim McLean at Doral, and he’s helped me develop a began on the Senior Tour,” says Sigel. “I think consistent swing. it’s more events and more time to work on my “My mental approach has changed as well. I’ve become process-oriented rather than game, and that’s because of better weather. In results-oriented. At the putting championship, I never said to myself ‘I have to make this Pennsylvania I’d play from April until the end putt.’ What I was saying was ‘hit this one on that line’ or ‘at that speed.’ It takes the pressure of October. Now, I’m playing more and en- off when you’re worried about the outcome instead of how you’re going to achieve that joying it.” outcome. Golfers put a lot of pressure on themselves, and this is what has worked for me.” Upon his one reflection, the decision to The new approach has worked well for him, as the 2002 season was a breakout year for become a professional was the right one, for Mattiace. He finished in the top 30 on the money list for the first time on the strength of two more reasons than just winning money. victories – the first two of his career – at the Nissan Open and FedEx St. Jude Classic He made “It appeared to me that the guys on the 25 cuts in 28 starts and collected over $2 million in a single season for the first time. Mattiace Senior Tour were having fun,” he recalls. one of 18 first-time winners and eight multiple winners during the 2002 season. “That has certainly proven to be the case. Mattiace’s recent success promises more for There’s a different kind of pressure. When his future on the PGA Tour. He says that there isn’t you’re an amateur, golf may be a hobby, but really a timetable for players who aspire to the the goals are still there with only a few events to reach those goals in.” Tour. “On the Senior Tour, the level of play is high, but there is less pressure because you have “It’s a very personal issue,” he says, “be- 30-some opportunities to reach your goals. You play more often, you hit the ball a little cause it’s just you and your game. There’s no draft, further, a little stronger.” no team. You have to go through Q-School, which Sigel, who was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 1983, is a member is a pressure-cooker, or get sponsors exemptions, of the University’s Board of Trustees, continuing a tradition of strong ties between the Wake which is hard to do. I’ve seen can’t-miss All-Ameri- Forest golf program and the University community. cans quit after five years of trying. I’ve “Playing golf at Wake Forest is a special privilege,” Sigel says. “You will always be a seen people stay with it for years and never make part of that Wake Forest family. I’ve seen it for years, and I see it today: it travels with you. It’s the PGA Tour. a respected part of your amateur career. You can be an All-American, you can be on a Walker “You can’t put a timetable on a profes- Cup team, you can play for Wake Forest. It’s all viewed at the same level, all accorded the same sional golf career. As along as a player is enjoy- respect. ing golf and improving his game and setting “The program has produced so many champions. Add to that those who are successful goals, and if the desire is there 100 percent, then club pros, or successful businessmen and so on, and you’ll see a strong representation of the there is a chance that success will follow.” success of men from the Wake Forest golf program.” 44 • 2002-03 Wake Forest Golf Alumni Spotlight

Curtis Strange

The man who captured titles for the Wake Forest men’s When he won the National Pee Wee golf championships in golf team in the 1970s and vaulted to the top of the profes- 1963 and 1964, he played with women’s clubs. Nobody called sional earnings list in the 1980s and ‘90s continues to be one Lanny Wadkins a wimp. of professional golf’s most recognizable and most popular He used those Mary Lena Faulk clubs until he was 16, regu- figures. larly beating rich boys whose bags danced with the chrome Curtis Strange’s golf credits place him among the best of reflections of names like Wilson Staff and Spalding Top-Flite. the best. He won back-to-back U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989. By the time he arrived at Wake Forest University, he had In 1988, he was the first player to surpass the million-dollar grown into a rogue. He was full of brag. He also verified the mark in one year. He won at least one tournament every year wisdom of an old adage – “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” from 1983 to 1989, totalling 14 titles over that span. He played He played with flair. He walked fast and swung fast. He on four Walker Cup teams and has 17 total tour victories. fired at every pin. He stormed the compass, winning the U.S. While the 1990s weren’t as fast-paced and high-flying, Strange continued to find success Amateur as well as the Western, Southern and Eastern amateurs. Running out of directions to on the Tour. He totaled 11 top 10 finishes between 1994 and 2000, including a ninth-place conquer (the Northern Amateur had yet to be recognized as a major amateur event), he finish at the 1995 Masters. He has played a reduced schedule in recent years, however, due to turned pro at 21. a burgeoning career as a golf analyst for ABC-TV. After one major championship (the 1977 PGA Championship) and 21 PGA Tour victo- Most recently, Strange served as captain of the 2002 U.S. Ryder Cup Team. Along with ries, he is among the world’s most recognizable golfers. European captain , Strange was credited for bringing sportsmanship and ca- On the eve of the , I implied that U.S. captain Lanny Wadkins was a wimp. maraderie back to Ryder Cup matches. This was an attempt, in good humor, to declare my conviction that players, not captains, win In 1989, Ron Balicki wrote in GolfWeek Magazine “...For years now America has been Ryder Cups. crying out for a new superstar ... last Sunday...that savior arrived. Enter Curtis Northrup Strange Now I regret the simplicity of such a position. Let me explain. – golfing superstar of the 1980s.” Here at LaCosta Resort & Spa, discussing golf with Wadkins, I am struck by a bolt of Strange credits his experiences as a Wake Forest golfer for preparing him for the success truth: He is a person who disdains small talk, and I have misjudged him greatly. This is not that he earned as a professional. the man I thought I knew. He speaks sensitively on a number of topics. “Collegiate golf is so important,” Strange says. “It’s a training ground, a learning During the course of my first interview with Wadkins – it must have been 20 years ago, ground, for future involvement in any aspect of golf. and he does not remember – he fired this missile: “You picked a hell of a time to ask a “Every day while I was at Wake Forest, I played against two or three of the best collegiate question like that.” players in the country. It made me a better player. I hate to think what would have happened I thought he was still the rogue, arrogant and inconsiderate. Now I realize that I have if I hadn’t gone to Wake Forest. I doubt I would have achieved the same success.” carried that impression with me for years. But there is something genuinely touching about The success Strange found on the PGA Tour was foreshadowed by his success as a Demon Wadkins on this day, something utterly sincere about the way he tackles every issue. Deacon. He was a three-time All-American and a two-time All-ACC player. He was a member On introducing his son Travis, 8, to the game: “I was afraid to start him too soon. He of two NCAA Championships teams and was the NCAA medalist in 1974. His teams won each couldn’t hold it (the club) at the top, and I don’t want Jr. I think too many parents of the ACC tournaments in which he competed; he was the ACC medalist in 1975. push their kids into golf before they have the strength to handle it.” “College golf does so much for a player,” Strange says. “You mature so much physically On one standard ball for the PGA Tour: “I think it’s a good idea. First, the balls today go and mentally. You learn how to get along with people, and not just other golfers.” too far, and we run the risk of the great courses becoming a bygone era. Second, with so many Strange stresses that, while not everyone is a PGA Tour star-in-the-making, golf as a balls out there, a guy can pick the one that suits his game. It takes some of the skill, and career and the club level or behind the scenes can be very attractive to many. certainly a lot of the imagination, out of the game.” The only thing Strange would have I call his former college coach, the fatherly Jesse Haddock, now retired from Wake Forest, changed about his career, and thus his stron- and Jesse tells me, “He is a noble young man. He does a lot for other people, but not for credit. gest advice to the Deacon golfers of the future He doesn’t hunt for that. There is a depth to him, always has been. Some people confused it is this: with brashness – that dig, that pique, that little bit of entertaining – but he is very unselfish. “I always tell them to get their degree. I I wish everybody knew him as I do, the real Lanny Wadkins.” was very fortunate that my career went so well, Still, it is difficult to forget that irreverent young golfer who played the game with self- but only a very small percentage of golfers will assured ferocity. He was aggressive when aggressive wasn’t cool. make a living playing golf. Even if you actu- At [48], he is approaching the fault line that is senior golf, and I see a husband, a father ally make it on the tour, your degree will help and Ryder Cup captain who thinks, talks and acts like an informed, concerned man. you deal with the business of playing golf.” But occasionally I still regard him as the rogue, and that’s the image in my mind as we The business of golf has changed since play the first hole on LaCosta’s North Course. Strange began his professional career. The He walks onto the green of the par-4 hole and says, “one year I started the last round of money has gotten bigger, the competition has the Tournament of Champions with a two-stroke lead, and Jay Haas holed his second shot gotten tougher and golf has become a year- right here on this green. He tied me with one shot.” round event. “What happened after that?” someone asks. “Pro golf is stronger than ever now, and “I got him,” he answers with predatory relish, sounding 19 and imperious. more visible now, because of the corporate at- In my life, I have known rogues and reformers and generally preferred the rogues. titude. Our image meets the needs of a corpo- (By James Achenbach, Senior Editor, Golfweek, Dec. 23, 1995 edition. Used with rate sponsor, and golf is stronger for its corporate relationships.” permission.) And as Strange says he is stronger for his relationship with Wake Forest; so Wake Forest is stronger for its relationship with Curtis Strange. WFU Golf Alumni • 45 WFU Hall of Fame

The 93 individuals listed below represent Wake Forest University’s Sports Hall of Fame, established in 1970 with the induction of former Hoch basketball coach Murray Greason, late football star Brian Piccolo, former football coach Peahead Walker, and former director of athletics Jim Weaver, who later became the first commissioner of the ACC. Fifteen men’s golfers have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame, starting with Arnold Palmer, who was inducted in 1971. The Hall of Fame Committee, which meets annually to determine worthy candidates for induction, consists of director of athletics Ron Wellman, senior associate athletic director/senior woman administrator Barbara Walker, faculty athletic chair (and committe chair) Dr. Ed Wilson, Ed Bradley, Skip Brown, Dot Casey, Ashby Cook, Abe Elmore, Bill Hensley, Linwood Holt, Costi Kutteh, Anne Philpott, Jody Puckett, Dr. Jack Sawyer, Jerry West and Frank Wyatt. Anyone can nominate a person to the Hall of Fame. Eligibility for Hall of Fame members is defined by 10 criteria, which include being out of school for 10 years (or deceased); receiving national recognition as an athlete, coach or administrator; being of good character and reputation; and having no stronger connection with another university. 1970 1985 1995 Murray Greason, basketball coach Carl Tacy, basketball coach Marvin “Skeeter” Francis, publicist Brian Piccolo, football Jim Duncan, football Gary Hallberg, golf Peahead Walker, football coach Dave Harris, football player/high school Jane Jackson, basketball Jim Weaver, director of athletics administrator John Mackovic, football coach and player Linwood Holt, baseball John Polanski, football 1971 Jack Lewis, golf Arnold Palmer, golf 1996 1987 Bill Armstrong, football 1972 Ed Bradley, football Jim Simons, golf Tommy Byrne, baseball Jay Haas, golf Brick Smith, baseball Harry Rabenhorst, football Billy Scripture, baseball Curtis Strange, golf 1997 1973 Rod Griffin, basketball Red Cochran, football 1988 Bill Merrifield, baseball Bones McKinney, basketball coach Larry Hopkins, football Nick Ognovich, football Billy Joe Patton, golf Gene Overby, radio announcer James Parker, football Larry Russell, football Leonard Thompson, golf 1974 Inman Leon Brogden, high school coach 1990 1998 Al Dowtin, administrator Moe Bauer, baseball Bob Gaona, football Dickie Hemric, basketball Dave Budd, basketball Bill George, football Pat Williams, pro basketball executive Frank Johnson, basketball 1975 Dick Tiddy, golf Bill Barnes, football and baseball 1991 Lefty Davis, baseball and basketball Jim Clack, football 1999 Red O’Quinn, football Herb Cline, Sr., football and basketball Brenda Corrie Keuhn, golf Scott Hoch, golf Harry Dowda, football 1976 Jack Stallings, baseball Dr. Jack Sawyer, administrator Ray Scarborough, baseball Jim Waller, basketball 1992 2000 Skip Brown, basketball Tommy Gregg, baseball 1977 Frank Christie, basketball Amy Privette Perko, basketball Bill Eutsler, high school coach Bill Hull, basketball and football Jay Venuto, football Thompson Norm Snead, football James McDougald, football 2001 Wadkins 1980 1993 Gary Baldinger, football Len Chappell, basketball Bill Ard, football Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues, basketball Jesse Haddock, golf coach Dot Casey, women’s AD/coach Jack Williams, basketball Pat Preston, football Marge Crisp, women’s golf coach/ Charlie Teague, baseball administrator 2002 Harry Nicholas, baseball Joe Inman, golf 1982 Tony Mayberry, football Jack Murdock, basketball 1994 Ricky Proehl, football Nick Sacrinty, football Jim Flick, basketball and golf Jim Staton, football Dr. Gene Hooks, athletic director 2003 Lanny Wadkins, golf Win Headley, football Elmer Barbour, football Dickie Davis, football 1984 Vic Sorrell, baseball Bob Bartholomew, football Charlie Davis, basketball Jay Sigel, golf 46 • 2002-03 Wake Forest Golf