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six member All-American Committee where he will be involved with
the Jack Nicklaus Award, the Ben Hogan Award, and the Palmer Cup
Team for the next six years. He will serve as chairman of the Jack
Nicklaus Award Committee in 2017. He is a past vice president of
the Virginia chapter of the Middle Atlantic PGA, having also served
on the tournament rules and regulations committee, the membership
committee, and the employment and club relations committee. He has
been a head professional for 44 years and is a Class “A” Member,
Quarter Century Club Member and Life Member of the PGA of America.
Hardwick was elected president of the BIG EAST Golf Coaches
Association for the 2003-04 season and served on the NCAA
Golf District Advisory Committee from 1994 to 1997, becoming
chairman of District III-North in his last year on the panel. He also
was a member of the GCAA Wilson Coaches Top 25 Poll and the
Golf Digest Collegiate Poll and served on the All-Region Committee.
Hardwick has twice been selected by the NCAA to serve as an
instructor at the Youth Education through Sports (YES) golf clinic,
which was held at the site of the NCAA Golf Championship. He
conducted a clinic in 1990 at Innisbrook, Fla., and again in 1996
in Chattanooga, Tenn. Hardwick has been an instructor at the
Championship Coaches Golf School since 1986. During this time he
has taught at 80 golf schools.
In 2001 he was an instructor at the Hall of Fame Teaching and
Coaching Seminar at Walt Disney World Golf Resort. Norwegian
Cruise Lines selected Hardwick to serve as the golf coordinator in
their 1991 NFL/PGA Instruction Program. He conducted golf clinics
on the five southern Caribbean Islands of Barbados, Martinique, St.
Maarten, Antigua and St. Thomas.
In the summer of 1992, Hardwick was chosen to coach Team USA
at the World Junior Team Championship, held in Izumo City, Japan.
It marked the first time the United States had officially sponsored
a junior team in international competition. Team USA won the gold
medal in the 12-team tournament and four of Team USA’s players
placed in the top 10, including Justin Roof of Conway, S.C., who
captured the individual title.
An excellent teacher of the game, Hardwick has compiled an
impressive list of playing accomplishments as well. In the fall of
2009, less than a year after reconstructive shoulder surgery, he
achieved perhaps the most impressive feat of his playing career
by winning the State Senior Open of Virginia. In 1995 he won the
Middle Atlantic PGA Head Professional Championship by one shot
after he birdied the last five holes. That year, he also won the Bobby
Jones/Homestead Invitational at the Lower and Upper Cascades with
rounds of 68-65 for a seven shot victory. In addition, he was named a
member of the PGA Challenge Cup Team for 1995, 1996 and 1997.
He qualified for the National PGA Club Professional Championship
in 1978, 1988 and 1992 and was selected by the PGA as a member
of the Yamaha Cup team in 1988. He won the 1981 Spalding
International Professional Championship in Castle Harbour, Bermuda,
and was low pro in the Virginia PGA State Open in 1976. Hardwick
also holds five course records, two tournament records and has twice
shot 29 in competition.
A Narrows, Va., native, Hardwick played collegiate golf for the
same team he now coaches. During his four-year playing career at
Tech, the Hokies posted a 64-9 match play record and won three