La Reserve Golf Links at Heritage Golf Club: The Bel Ombre, Mauritius, course is named the World’s Best New Golf Course 2024 at the World Golf Awards.
LPGA: Mao Saigo earns the 2024 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award and Ayaka Furue wins the Vare Trophy following the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Saigo is the second Japanese player to win the award since it was first created and is proceeded only by Hiromi Kobayashi, who claimed the award in 1990, almost 35 years ago. Furue won the Vare Trophy for recording the season’s lowest scoring average of 69.988 and meeting the award’s minimum requirements. This is the highest scoring average since Danielle Kang finished with 70.082 in 2020. She is the first player from Japan to ever receive the award in its 72-year history.
U.S. Golf Association: Releases its 2025 Executive Committee slate, which is again led by Fred Perpall, who will be serving his final year as USGA president. Kevin Hammer, who will serve his second three-year term on the Executive Committee, has been nominated as president-elect. In addition, Dianne Dixon and Jim Gorrie have each been nominated to serve a three-year term on the USGA Executive Committee, a volunteer group of 15 people that provides strategic and financial oversight as the Association’s policymaking and governance board. Also, Sinclair Eaddy Jr. has been nominated to serve a second three-year term on the USGA Executive Committee. The election of Executive Committee members will take place at the USGA Annual Meeting on March 1 in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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