How ironic is it that the man engaged specifically to modernize and manage change in golf’s most influential governing body should be called ‘Slumbers,’ within an organization that has in effect sleepwalked its way through the past 250 years. But, as Mike Wilson finds out, change for the better is well underway in creating a venerable organization fit for purpose for the many challenges facing it in the 21st century
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Written by Mike Wilson
Photography by AFP
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