Royal and Ancient Golf Club announce new captain

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has announced that Bruce Mitchell will serve as Captain in 2017/18.

Mr Mitchell has been nominated as Captain by the past Captains of the Club and will become the first Canadian to hold the position. He will begin his year in office with the traditional driving-in ceremony on the first tee of the Old Course on Friday, 22 September 2017.

A renowned businessman, now based in Toronto, Mr Mitchell is the founder, owner and President of Permian Industries, a management and holding company with sole or significant shareholdings in two food companies and two computer software providers.

Mr Mitchell has served on the Board of Directors of the Bank of Montreal and a number of other public company, private corporation and not-for-profit Boards. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, on the Board of St Michael’s Hospital Foundation and a Trustee of the Ridley College Foundation.

A member of The Toronto Golf Club where he served as President in 1996 and 1997, Mr Mitchell is a past club champion of Windermere Golf and Country Club where he was a Trustee and then Co-Chair in 2007 and 2008. He became a member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1988 and currently plays to a handicap of 14.

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