Your Game 16. I n a surprising development, Carol Semple Thompson, a five-time U.S. Golf Association champion and daughter of a former USGA president, has confirmed she is leaving the USGA executive committee after seven years. I have decided that someone else should have the opportunity to be on the executive committee. There are a lot of good people out there who want to serve. Two women sit on the powerful executive committee, which consists of 15 members and a general counsel.
Members serve one-year terms and nominations are submitted annually.
Golfweek has learned that the number of women will remain at two with the nomination of Mary Bea Porter-King. Although two African-Americans have served on the executive committee in the past, there presently are no minority members on the committee and none has been nominated for 2001. Wis. Joining Thompson in stepping down from the committee will be O. Gordon Brewer Jr., who has served as chairman of the Implements and Ball committee for the past three years, and Dr. Merton Goode of San Francisco. The executive committee, composed entirely of unpaid volunteers, makes final decisions on all USGA matters, including the Rules of Golf and the distribution of USGA funds. Reinhardt is president of Reinhardt, Mahoney and Bryden Capital Management.