Mike Waldron Receives IAGA Distinguished Service Award

Mike Waldron, former Executive Director of the Georgia State Golf Association (GSGA), was selected as the 2015 International Association of Golf Administrators (IAGA) Distinguished Service Award recipient. Mike Waldron began his golf administrative career with the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1979 and worked for Executive Sports, managing event logistics for the PGA Tour, LPGA, and other events throughout the 1980s. He then began what would become an 18-year term as the Executive Director of the GSGA. He currently serves as a Manager of Rules and Competitions for the LPGA. Mike is also a past President of the IAGA, serving in that capacity in 2003. Waldron’s other accomplishments include a stint working at the USGA as a Regional Associations Manager and sitting on USGA committees for Regional Associations, the Joe Dey Award, Rules of Golf, and Handicap Procedure. His long career in golf was also spent lending time to rules work. He worked as a rules official at more than 40 USGA National Championships, including 11 U.S. Opens. He also worked at more than 20 other Men’s and Women’s Major Professional Golf Championships, including Four Masters Tournaments. Mike is a past president of the Georgia Golf Environmental Foundation and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association and the Georgia Section of the PGA of America.