The World Golf Foundations named Peter Dawson its chairman for 2009.
Dawson, who’s been the chief executive at the R&A since 1999, joined the WGF board in 2006, when it was reconfigured to incude the chief executive of golf’s leading global organizations. At that time, the foundation began rotating the role of chairman among the board’s executive committee members.
Other executive committee members include Jim Armstrong, executive director of Augusta National Golf Club; Carolyn Bivens, commissioner of the LPGA; Tim Finchem, commissioner of the PGA Tour; George O’Grady, chief executive of the European Tour; and Joe Steranka, CEO of the PGA of America.
