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Chris Haack, Head Coach
Chris Haack was named the Georgia men’s golf coach on July 18,1996 – and he has guided the Bulldogs to their highest levels of success.
Haack has coached the Bulldogs to two national championships (the only two in school history), eight Southeastern Conference crowns, 67 team tournament titles, and virtually every squad and individual records.
Under his tutelage, 27 Bulldogs have accumulated 63 medalist titles. Thirty-one of his players have rolled up 70 All-America honors, while 33 have earned 71 All-SEC certificates. He also has coached 19 Scholar All-Americans. Eleven of Haack’s pupils have amassed 44 PGA Tour wins and, all told, his former players have earned more than $200 million at the pro level.
Haack was inducted into the GCAA Hall of Fame in 2012, the GSGA’s Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2016, and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
Haack’s Bulldogs have had nine top-10 and 17 top-20 efforts at the NCAAs, including the 1999 and 2005 national championships, runner-up efforts in 2007 and 2011, and third-place showings in 2009 and 2015.
The Bulldogs won three tournaments in 2005 – including the most memorable one in the spring as Georgia capped the season with a wire-to-wire win at the NCAAs. Haack was chosen as the National Coach of the Year.
Haack’s breakthrough season with the Bulldogs came in 1999. No Georgia team had ever ascended to the No. 1 position in the polls, but Haack’s team did so early in the spring campaign. The Bulldogs later validated their ranking by winning the program’s first national championship. Haack was named National Coach of the Year.
Before being named Georgia’s coach, Haack was a driving force for the American Junior Golf Association. He joined the AJGA in 1981 as a tournament director before becoming director of operations in 1984 and director of development in 1985. He served a seven-year stint as captain of the Canon Cup West Team, squads that included Tiger Woods.
The recipient of the AJGA Sportsmanship Award, Haack graduated from Newnan High School in 1978. He attended West Georgia College, where he played on the golf team, and he received his degree from Mellen.
Haack is married to the former Ronda Livesay and they have six children (Kasi, Charlie, Kassidy, Katie, Kaylee, and Katie Beth) and four grandsons (Banks, Rhodes, Reynolds and Crosby).
Jim Douglas, Associate Head Coach
Jim Douglas, who helped the Georgia men’s golf team win the program’s two national championships, rejoined the Bulldogs’ staff in January of 2011 and was promoted to Associate Head Coach in July of 2012. He is in his 20th season overall with the Bulldogs.
Douglas was Georgia’s assistant coach from 1997 through 2005, during which time the Bulldogs celebrated some of their greatest success. With Douglas as Coach Chris Haack’s lieutenant, Georgia won NCAA titles in 1999 and 2005, along with four Southeastern Conference championships (1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004). Georgia produced 26 All-Americans, 30 All-SEC picks, two SEC Players of the Year, two SEC Freshmen of the Year, 33 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections, six Scholar All-Americans, and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient in that span.
Douglas served parts of the 2009-10 season as a volunteer coach, including during Georgia’s run to the SEC title.
In 2011, with Douglas assisting Haack in the spring, the Bulldogs advanced to the final match of the NCAA Championship. Douglas and Haack also guided the Bulldogs to the 2015 “Final Fore.” In 2015, Douglas also helped the Bulldogs win the 29th SEC title in school history.
Douglas graduated from UGA with a degrees in Political Science and History.
He is married to Amanda, and has five children, James, Charles, Robert, Anne Alston, and Glenn.
Jim Douglas, Assistant Coach
Former Georgia men's golf letterman Mookie DeMoss joined the program's staff as an assistant coach on Jan. 11, 2024. He is in his first season with the team.
DeMoss, a Duluth native, captained the 2015 squad that went to the Final Four at the NCAA Championships. He was also an All-American Honorable Mention in 2015 and finished 11th individually in NCAA Stroke Play that year.
“I’m extremely grateful and honored to be back at Georgia,” DeMoss said. “In my opinion, the Georgia golf program is the best in the country - the tradition here is second to none. I was very humbled when Coach Haack approached me about this assistant coaching position. I learned so much from playing here and from former players pouring into me and this program. My wife and I both graduated from UGA and spent the first few years of our marriage here, is getting to be back in Athens is incredible. I’m so excited to get to work and for the opportunity to be part of Georgia again.”
During his time as a Bulldog, DeMoss helped lead the team to 10 tournament wins, including three team victories in 2015. His best finish that season was a third-place result and earned a low round of 68.
After graduating from Georgia in 2015, DeMoss competed in PGA TOUR Canada. He then played at the Barbasol Championships, a PGA TOUR event, in July of 2017, and the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2018 before becoming a Korn Ferry Tour member in 2019. In 2020, DeMoss won the Kannapolis Open on the GPro Tour, shooting 67-61-62 and carding a 23-under 190. He returned to PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2020 and 2021.
Between Feb. 2020 and Sept. 2023, DeMoss earned seven top-15 finishes across 22 events. During his professional career, DeMoss Monday qualified for multiple events on the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA TOUR, including the Barbasol and Club Car Championship at The Landings Club in April 2022. He also caddied on the PGA TOUR for former Bulldogs Sepp Straka, Chris Kirk, Brendon Todd, Keith Mitchell and TOUR Player Josh Teater.
"This team is a really tight-knit group of guys,” DeMoss said. “They love to compete, and I think they haven’t come close to reaching their potential yet. My goal is to help maximize potential and help these guys to fall in love with the process of being the best they are capable of becoming.”
DeMoss and his wife, Betsy, are both Bulldog graduates and stayed in the Athens area for the first few years of their marriage. The two recently welcomed a daughter, Jane, on October 4th, 2023.
