December 19, 2013: It’s a cleansing time for Japanese Professional Golf Association. After what made headlines this week in Japan, executives of that country’s Professional Golf Association have opted to resign en masse after two of their colleagues were found to have played golf and socialized with a mafia chief.
[highlight]all 91 representatives will voluntarily give up their posts in an effort to shore up public trust in the organization [/highlight]
According to the AFP reports, the JapanPGA group’s entire leadership—all 91 representatives, including chairman Shizuo Mori, four vice chairman around 20 board directors—will voluntarily give up their posts in an effort to shore up public trust in the organization.
The decision has come after the scandalous news revealed that between March and June of 2013, then-PGA vice chairman Shinsaku Maeda, 61 and board director Tadayoshi Bando, 67, dined and played golf with the head of a yakuza organized crime syndicate on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
Whatever be the case, especially those anywhere associated with it cannot ignore the etiquettes of a game of golf. PGA policy forbids organization brass from hobnobbing with crime bosses.
Bando and Maeda were both expelled from the PGA in October this year. Nevertheless, their actions left a taint that Japan’s PGA executives are eager to erase and hence decided on this course.
“We take the matter very seriously,” current PGA vice chairman Nobuyuki Abe was quoted as saying. “We want to do our utmost to prevent a recurrence of such a case.”
As part of the house-cleaning, new PGA representatives will be elected, and those representatives will choose a fresh slate of directors.
The lesson learnt here is that crime doesn’t pay. And playing golf with organized crime bosses is a bigger crime in the game of golf.
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