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Haas didn't need any help from his dad - Gregg Patton

Published on Monday, January 25, 2010
By GREGG PATTON


LA QUINTA - The mountain sheep scaling the cliffs alongside the 16th and 17th holes weren't the only ones who watched Bob Hope Classic winner Bill Haas from a distance.

"I tried to stay out of his line of sight," said his father, Jay Haas, who won the Hope in 1988. "I wasn't going to stand by the tee and tell him anything."

As it turned out, the younger Haas didn't need any fatherly advice, in person anyway. He simply calmed his own nerves to win his first PGA tourney Monday by 1 stroke, with birdies on the final two holes.

That dad was there to witness family history, well, chalk that up to pure serendipity, involving Mother Nature and the fateful intertwining of two complex golf schedules.

"Just for him to win anywhere, but for me to be here ...," said Jay, shaking his head as words eluded him.

Jay, 56, spent the weekend in Hawaii, finishing in a tie for 17th in a Champions Tour event   Read Full Article...

 
 

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