R&A ambassadors function diplomats for sport

Michelle Wie West is the newest R&A ambassador. Picture: David Cannon, Getty Pictures

The R&A has a proliferating selection of what it calls ambassadors. The most recent amongst them, Michelle Wie West (international construction), got here in at No. 9; the sooner editions being Pádraig Harrington, Wenchon Liang and Suzann Pettersen (Operating for Golfing); Tom Watson (Open Championship); Georgia Corridor (Girls and Ladies into Golfing); Zane Scotland (range); and Gareth Bale and Niall Horan previous Wie West for international construction.

Within the Collins Dictionary, the phrase “ambassador” is described as “a diplomatic minister of the absolute best rank approved as everlasting consultant to any other nation or sovereign.” Somewhere else, it’s implemented to The united states’s senior overseas provider workers who, curiously sufficient, may have salaries which exceed the utmost “however won’t pass over the wage set for the Vice President of the USA, which used to be $240,100 a yr as of 2017.”

A few oft-repeated questions considerations what the R&A ambassadors receives a commission and…