With its latest slate of nominees for the Executive Committee, the United States Golf Association (USGA) is set to have its first Black president in the association’s 128-year history, Golf Digest reported on Thursday, December 9, 2021.
For 2022, Fred Perpall has been nominated as president-elect, a position the USGA created in 2019 to help with the transition of leadership on the Executive Committee. He would then be in line to take over as president in 2023 after current president Stu Francis finishes the third year of his three-year term.
A native of the Bahamas who lives in Dallas, Perpall is CEO of The Beck Group, where he oversees the company’s architectural design, planning, real estate consultancy and construction businesses. He has served on the USGA Executive Committee since 2019 and currently chairs the Championship Committee as well as working on the Amateur Status Committee. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees that helped build Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.
Perpall, 47, played basketball and ran track at the University of Texas at Arlington and was a member of the 1994 Bahamian national basketball team. See complete Golf Digest article at https://www.golfdigest.com/story/usga-2022-executive-committee-fred-perpall-nominated-president-elect
