VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition

14 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 82 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. Coach Jay Hardwick receives the GCAA 35-year Service Award from GCAA President Andrew Sapp at the 2017 convention.