It had been a very, very long day.
More than 20 hours in the air -- and that doesn't count the layover in Chicago to drop one of their three daughters off at school. A mere 11 time zones crossed between Seoul and Greenville, South Carolina, to further upend the body clock.
As soon as Jay Haas and his wife Jan pulled into their driveway at 5:30 that Monday evening, though, it became apparent there would be no rest for the weary.
Not that they really wanted any. Not when their eight grandchildren were inside with assorted parents waiting to celebrate the American victory in The Presidents Cup the previous day.
Red, white and blue streamers hung from the branches of the trees in the front yard of the U.S. Captain's house, and the front door was draped in the same patriotic color scheme. Even the three pizzas in the kitchen had the letters U-S-A on them.
"When I was flying back, I was like, ‘How are we going to see all the grandkids?’ " Haas recalled. "So it was nice they all came to us. After about two minutes, they had forgotten about me and Jan and gone off to play.
“So that brought us back down to earth."
For a little while, anyway.
All the emotions of the previous week came flooding back at 9 o'clock that night when the Golf Channel repeated its broadcast of the decisive Singles competition -- the one where Haas' son Bill, one of his Captain's Picks, earned the deciding point in the 15.5-14.5 U.S. win.
"We ended up watching it until 3 a.m., and we could hardly go to sleep then," Haas said.
Not to worry – the rest of October was spent getting over the jet lag.
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As Jay Haas watched the replay of his team’s win, he also saw his post-tournament interview with NBC’s Roger Maltbie on the 18th green. It was a rare display of emotion for the 61-year-old Haas, who was juggling the joy of seeing his team win with the joy of seeing his son come through in the clutch.
Instead of being kidded about shedding those tears, his friends empathized with him.
"Most people say that I was crying right there with you," Haas said. "I think any parent can relate.
"When you see your kids do something -- whether it be bringing home a good paper or seeing our daughters make a play at a softball game or watching our daughter dance -- it doesn't get much better than that."
Haas didn't plan to put his son out 12th and last in the Singles competition; he actually had him slotted anywhere from the fifth match on. But that's the way it played out, and the younger Haas drew the popular Korean, Sangmoon Bae, as his opponent.
The International Team was at its best on that Sunday, too, trying to win the biennial competition for just the second time since it began in 1994. Haas began thinking that his son might end up on the hot seat as the afternoon neared its conclusion.
"Like at 17, Bill had the opportunity to make a putt of about 25 feet," he recalled. "I thought if he makes it, it's all over."
But Bill didn't. So he took a tenuous 1-up lead to the 18th hole.
Jay Haas knows what it's like to have an international team competition come down to your match. At the 1995 Ryder Cup, playing in the 11th slot, he was 3 down to Philip Walton with three holes left. A 13-year-old Bill was in the gallery.
Haas holed a bunker shot at the 16th and birdied the 17th to head to the final hole trailing by one. Win and the Americans retained the Cup. Instead, he and Walton halved the hole with bogeys and the European celebration began.
Bill did what his father couldn't that Sunday, though.
"I just remember when he hit his second shot at 18," Haas said. "I was watching him hit it, and I was hearing the guys on the team say, 'Great shot from Bill.'
"To have his peers and all these great players say that for him was really special. The whole way it unfolded was more than I could imagine."