Jay Williams, a 23-year PGA of America Member and the Director of Golf at Briar Leaf Golf Club in LaPorte is PNC's first-ever golf coach. Williams earned the opportunity of building the start-up program from scratch with its inaugural season scheduled for the 2011-12 academic year. 

Williams has been involved in golf his entire life and has worked continuously in the golf business since the age of 15. Upon graduating from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State) where he attended on a full golf scholarship, he turned professional and explored playing the game for a living.

Eventually, Williams became a club professional and dedicated himself over the past 20 plus years to promoting the game through teaching, conducting tournaments and providing golfers with all of the services that mark a quality PGA Professional.

Williams has been featured in Golf Digest, Country Club Golfer, PGA Magazine and various other publications for teaching, is a member of the PGA of America's President's Council on Growing the Game and is a past Chairman of the Greater LaPorte (IN) Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Williams is looking forward to building the golf program at PNC from the ground up and is confident that the team will compete successfully right from the start.

In his spare time, Williams is the host of "Golf it Up! Radio," a golf themed variety show and is well known in community theatre circles having acted in numerous productions as well as two independent films. When away from the daily operations at Briar Leaf, Jay enjoys coaching his sons' sports teams, reading and following the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.