2008 Woodie Awards
Head golf coach Moore hangs up his clubs
Clarence Plank
Issue date: 6/6/07 Section: Sports
Johnny Moore sits behind his desk, while talking on the phone and trying to get some things taking care of for the day.
The office desk is cluttered with papers and there are a few boxes on the floor. After 18 years of being the head golf coach for his alma mater at Middle Tennessee Moore is retiring.
Moore has been with MT for nearly two decades and has been named Coach of the Year five times. He has coached five Golfers of the Year and his golfers have earned first-team All-Conference 17 times since he's been with MT.
"It's been very rewarding," Moore said. "I'm going to miss it. I'm going to give a little back to the university I might teach some golf lessons or play some golf. I might participate in some tournaments around the southeast."
Moore plans to stay involved with golf beyond MT and probably learn how to fish. He definitely intends on staying busy. He and his wife Andrea Jo have just moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee about a year ago.
From 1999-2000 the Blue Raiders were nationally ranked No. 35 by GolfStat under Moore and recently in the fall of last year No. 42 by Sagarin. That same year the team earned a trip the NCAA Regionals in Moosic, Pa.
Moore has coached Blue Raider squad to five Ohio Valley Conference titles. He did this in 1994-96 and then again in 1998 and 2000.
Moore, 69, is slated to retire effective June 15. When he applied for the golf coach's job back in 1988 that's when it became a full-time position at MT, since then he has lead the team to nine tourney championships and a appearance in the 2000 NCAA Regional.
It was no wonder they brought him on to be a full-time coach. Moore has been playing golf for nearly 32 years at that time.
"I played golf here in the late fifties, early sixties so I've been playing since I was 18 or 19 years old," Moore said. "I play it all the time [or] as much as I can. I don't play it as much as I used too."
Even though he never coached a golf team before and was never involved in collegiate golf he was surprised to learn that he got the job.
The office desk is cluttered with papers and there are a few boxes on the floor. After 18 years of being the head golf coach for his alma mater at Middle Tennessee Moore is retiring.
Moore has been with MT for nearly two decades and has been named Coach of the Year five times. He has coached five Golfers of the Year and his golfers have earned first-team All-Conference 17 times since he's been with MT.
"It's been very rewarding," Moore said. "I'm going to miss it. I'm going to give a little back to the university I might teach some golf lessons or play some golf. I might participate in some tournaments around the southeast."
Moore plans to stay involved with golf beyond MT and probably learn how to fish. He definitely intends on staying busy. He and his wife Andrea Jo have just moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee about a year ago.
From 1999-2000 the Blue Raiders were nationally ranked No. 35 by GolfStat under Moore and recently in the fall of last year No. 42 by Sagarin. That same year the team earned a trip the NCAA Regionals in Moosic, Pa.
Moore has coached Blue Raider squad to five Ohio Valley Conference titles. He did this in 1994-96 and then again in 1998 and 2000.
Moore, 69, is slated to retire effective June 15. When he applied for the golf coach's job back in 1988 that's when it became a full-time position at MT, since then he has lead the team to nine tourney championships and a appearance in the 2000 NCAA Regional.
It was no wonder they brought him on to be a full-time coach. Moore has been playing golf for nearly 32 years at that time.
"I played golf here in the late fifties, early sixties so I've been playing since I was 18 or 19 years old," Moore said. "I play it all the time [or] as much as I can. I don't play it as much as I used too."
Even though he never coached a golf team before and was never involved in collegiate golf he was surprised to learn that he got the job.
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