Jerry Weeks begins his first season as men's golf coach at Southern Miss after spending the last 25 years as Director of Golf at the Hattiesburg Country Club.

Weeks, a quarter century member of the PGA of America, has played in the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic five times, the Club's Professionals Championship, a 10-time member of the Mississippi Cup and participated in the Gulf States Section Match Play Championship event.

A two-time winner of the Horton Smith Award for the Gulf States PGA section, Weeks also garnered the Professional of the Year by the Mississippi PGA in 1984 and for the Southeast Region presented by Golf Industry Magazine in 1991.

Additionally, Weeks was nominated in 1990 as one of the "Best 100 Golf Operations in the United States" by Golf Shop Operations Magazine and was a previous winner of the Gulf State s Section "Merchandiser of the Year" for private clubs.

Weeks was selected as submitting one of the "Top Ten Golf Tips of All Time" by Golf Magazine and served as a past panelist for Golf Digest course rating along with being a rules official for numerous tournaments for the Gulf States PGA. He also had eight of his former assistants go on to become head golf professionals throughout the United States.

During his time at the Hattiesburg Country Club, Weeks has been responsible for the day-to-day golf operations as well as working with the course superintendent relating to the course conditioning and daily setup. His duties also included working with the formation and control of the annual budgets in addition to managing his time with various committees regarding tournaments and corporate outings. He also assisted with the instruction program at the Country Club.

Some tournaments hosted by Hattiesburg Country Club during Weeks' time there included the PGA Tour stop the Magnolia Classic, later named the Deposit Guaranty Classic from 1982-93, the Mississippi State Amateur three times, the Mississippi State Open twice, the PGA Sectional once, and in 1997 the Southern Region Club Pro Championship - one of four sites in America in 1997. HCC also played host to the 2002 Conference USA women's golf championship.