10.13am 13th March 2025 - <a href="https://golfbusinessnews.com/news/people/">People & Jobs</a> <br>Former PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem has received the PGA TOUR Lifetime Achievement Award, the 14th time the accolade has been awarded and the first since 2015. <br>Finchem, 77, established the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 to periodically honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the PGA TOUR.<br>Current PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Finchem at a ceremony at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse in conjunction with the 51st edition of THE PLAYERS Championship.<br>“Tim Finchem built on what Joe Dey and Deane Beman — his two predecessors — created and then took the TOUR to incredible heights during his 22 years leading our organization,” said Monahan. “It’s impossible to fully articulate the impact he had on the PGA TOUR, but we believe the Lifetime Achievement Award best encapsulates everything Tim did for the TOUR and the game of golf.”<br>Finchem, the third commissioner of the PGA TOUR, succeeded Deane Beman in 1994 and held the position until his retirement in 2016. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022.<br>“Having been involved with the creation of the Lifetime Achievement Award, I fully understand the significance of what we wanted the Lifetime Achievement Award to represent to those receiving it,” said Finchem. “Now, as the Award comes to me, I can only say how extremely humbling this is and what great meaning it carries to my family and me.”<br>In Finchem’s first year as commissioner in 1994, the TOUR staged the inaugural Presidents Cup, a global event conceived by Beman that included the world’s best non-European players in team match-play competition against their American counterparts. After 15 playings across five countries, the Presidents Cup has grown to be one of the most highly anticipated events on golf’s calendar.<br>One of the crowning achievements of Finchem’s tenure was the development and introduction of the FedExCup in 2007. Now in its 19th year, the TOUR’s season-long points competition that culminates with the FedExCup Playoffs continues to grow in size and stature.<br>On the international front, Finchem oversaw the formation of the International Federation of PGA Tours in 1998 that brought golf’s five world-governing bodies — the PGA TOUR, the DP World Tour, the Japan Golf Tour, the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Sunshine Tour in South Africa — together to address global, professional golf issues. One year later, the Federation announced the formation of the World Golf Championships, a series of international events featuring players from around the globe.<br>With Finchem spearheading the effort on behalf of the International Golf Federation, the International Olympic Committee reinstated golf as an official sport on its program in 2009, with the first competition held at the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil.<br>Finchem was instrumental in the founding of First Tee in 1997 and was a tireless advocate and fundraiser for the program, recruiting former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush to serve as First Tee Honorary Chairs. Finchem received the First Tee Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.<br>Finchem was also commissioner when the TOUR surpassed both the $1 billion (2005) and $2 billion (2014) milestones in charitable giving. <br>“I enjoyed my TOUR career primarily because I worked with so many talented people who had clear vision and wanted the TOUR to succeed and our game to grow as much as I did,” Finchem said. “To represent world-class athletes and witness the rise in popularity of PGA TOUR golf around the world was incredibly gratifying.”<br>After retiring from the PGA TOUR, Finchem has remained active in the sport, maintaining his First Tee ties and promoting the initiative that has made golf more affordable and accessible for youth.<br>Fox Harb’r Resort in Canada is preparing to open a new championship course designed by two of the country’s top golf architects, Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom. 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