Coaching Experience:
The 2008 season will be Coach Worley's fifth at the helm of the storied GHS
Men's Golf Program. He has led the Red
Elephants to 26 top-ten finishes in various tournaments across the Southeast,
including the 2005 and 2006 Hall County Championships, a fifth place
finish at the 2006 AAA State Tournament, and another top-10 finish in 2007.
His overall record at Gainesville against all classifications is 546-205-34,
and career record is 798-260-45. His teams have also carried an
average grade point average of 3.8 and average SAT score of 1246.
In 2007, the team finished with an
overall record of 78-40-6, a Region 7AAA Runner-up finish and record of 21-5
versus region opponents, four runner-up finishes, five top-five finishes,
and a final Coaches' ranking of #9 in class AAA.
In 2006, the Red
Elephants had an impressive overall record of 79-21-4, with a 23-1 record
against Region 7AAA opponents, with four players being named to the NHSCGA
All-America team.
Coach Worley was previously the golf coach at Elbert
County High School from 1997-2002, where he led the Blue Devils to consecutive
region championships and top-five state tournament appearances. His teams also
won 4 tournament titles, in addition to leading the team to 11 top-five
finishes and 18 top-ten finishes. The
golf team had a five-year record of 252-55-11 against all classifications
during his stint in Elberton. He
received the 2001 and 2002 Region 8-AAA coach of the year award. Numerous
players have earned collegiate scholarships under his direction, and have
garnered several national, state, and local awards.
In addition, he was the first golf coach in the history of Flowery
Branch High School where he started the boys’ golf program.
Coach Worley works regularly with top area PGA Professionals Don Williams Jr. and
Mark Bowen at
Chattahoochee Golf Club, and has extensive experience in operating junior
clinics by assisting Golf Digest Top-50 teacher Tom Ness. He is the only high school coach in Georgia who is
trained to teach using Accelerized Golf's "Hotlines" technology, which is
used in the CGC indoor teaching center, and the TOMI putting system which is
used at The Valentine Athletic Center and CGC. He will again assist with the
Chris Haack Golf Camp at the University of Georgia in the summer of 2008.
"The Herd," which is the name of the junior golf program he created for
Gainesville junior golfers, has grown in less than a year to almost 50
members in grades 3-8. He competes personally at the amateur level in
local, state, and regional tournaments.
Personal:
Coach Worley and his wife, Allison, have two children.
He is a 1997 graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina
where was a letterman for the Terrier Football team as a wide receiver and a
Bonner Foundation Scholar.
An accomplished junior golfer, he played high school golf at Banks County High School, where he
participated in the 1992 and 1993 GHSA State Championship Tournaments.
In 2002, he was Flowery Branch High School's Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Honor Teacher of the Year. Worley serves as the
Career Technical Instruction (CTI) Coordinator and Student Support Team
Coordinator at Gainesville High.
His professional golf memberships include
the United States Golf Association, the Georgia State
Golf Association, the Golf Coaches Association of America, the Georgia High School Golf Coaches Association, and the National High School Golf Coaches Association.
He is the AAA Representative for the Georgia High School Golf Coaches
Association.
Favorite Courses:
Chattahoochee Golf Club – Gainesville, GA
Cateechee Golf Club – Hartwell, GA
Arrowhead Pointe – Elberton, GA
Cross Creek Plantation – Seneca, SC
Musgrove Mill - Clinton, SC
The Cliffs Valley Course - Traveler's Rest, SC
Carolina Country Club - Spartanburg, SC
Achasta Golf Club - Dahlonega, GA
Belfair Plantation (West) – Hilton Head, SC
Clay McDonald
clay.mcdonald@gcssk12.net
770-536-4441 x271
GHS Men’s Assistant Golf Coach
