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RON JAWORSKI IS FIXING DIVOTS.
HE IS A FAMOUS

TELEVISION PERSONALITY, A FORMER NFL MVP WHO GUIDED THE

1980 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES TO A SUPER BOWL APPEARANCE,

AND THE CO-MAJORITY OWNER OF THE PHILADELPHIA SOUL

RENA FOOTBALL TEAM. BUT ON THE SCREEN, “JAWS,” AS HE IS A

C C O O M M M M O O N N L LY Y K K N N O O W W N N , , I I S S R R E E P P A A I I R R I I N N G G D D I I V V O O T T S S I I N N T T H H E E G G R R A A S S S S . .
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hen he is aboard a riding mower and raking

bunkers, too, getting his hands dirty and doing
the simple tasks of a common greenskeeper in a

commercial hawking the services of Ron Jawor-
ski Golf, the company he’s owned since 1980. The

irm manages four South Jersey golf courses and
represents a successful second career beyond the

gridiron that Jaworski found through his passion
for playing and being on a golf course.

“I love the game of golf, I love the golf business, I love the people that are
in the game of golf, and it just expanded from there,” he says. “As a player,

our day of was Tuesday, and I went out to play golf to clear my head. You go
out to a golf course, meet with friends, you’re out in nature, the media isn’t

out there asking you questions, and you take out your frustration on a little
white ball.”
QUARTERBACK
Jaworski played 17 seasons in the NFL and is among the most popular RON JAWORSKI

football analysts on ESPN. He has survived guys like Lawrence Taylor trying
to rip his head of on the ield, and guys like Skip Bayless trying to bite it of
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POSITION: QB | HEIGHT: 6-2 | WEI: 196 lbs.
GHTTHROWS: Right
“When you’re getting whacked upside the head Sunday afternoons,” he
says, “I think that’s much harder than being in business.”
CAREER STA
TISTICS
NEW JERSEY CONNECTION
GAMES: 188
COMPLETION PERCENTAGE: 53.1%
Over the years, Ron Jaworski Golf has owned or managed 24 golf courses in COMPLETIONS: 2,187 | : 4,117
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Ron Jaworski Golf Manage- ATTEMPTSYARDS: 28,190 | : 179 | :164
TDINT : 363 | 72.8
ment provides an array of services to clients including consulting, inancial SACKSRATING:
analysis, operations, marketing and promotion, food and beverage develop-

ment, event planning, and agronomics.
NOTES
The company’s New Jersey golf properties currently include Blue Herron Ron Jaworski Golf Management is a full-
service golf course management co
Pines in Galloway, River Winds Golf Club in West Deptford, Running Deer mpany that helps to grow busin
Golf Club in Pittsgrove, and Valleybrook Country Club in Blackwood. A new esses. The company is built on Ja
worski’s EAGLE philosophy:
vertical of the business, Ron Jaworski Turf Solutions, recently inked a deal EN
THUSIASM
to manicure the grass at Campell’s Field, the baseball stadium where the AGGRESSIVE
Independent League Camden RiverSharks play their home games.
GENTLEMAN
LEADER
“I’ve never been one to invest in stocks or bonds or anything like that,”
ENDURANCE

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