AUSSIE SANDY DAWSON TO BECOME R AND A CAPTAIN IN SEPTEMBER
NEWS RELEASE FROM
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
He
has been nominated by the past Captains of the Club and will begin his
year in office with the traditional driving-in ceremony on the first tee
of the Old Course at 8am on Friday,
20 September 2013. He succeeds Frenchman, Pierre Bechmann, and will be
the second Australian to hold the position after Viscount Bruce of
Melbourne in 1954.
Born
in 1943, Sandy Dawson is a former Australian Universities Golf Champion
and, from 1988 to 1993, he was Captain of Royal Sydney Golf Club where
he has been Club President since 2010.
A
former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Arnott’s, one
of the largest food companies in the Asia Pacific region, he has held
senior positions at a number of other companies. He was chairman of
United Distillers (Australasia) and a director of Allied Mills, Goodman
Fielder and the Darling Harbour Authority.
Mr
Dawson lives in Sydney with his wife Jane and has three children and
nine grandchildren. He plays to a handicap of four and is also a keen
skier. He has been a Member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St
Andrews since 1974.
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