University of Tennessee Athletics
Former Vol Foster Named Southern Golf Association President
April 01, 2004 | Men's Golf
April 1, 2004
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Knoxville attorney Lewis Foster has become only the sixth Tennessean --and first in more than 30 years -- to be elected as president of the 102-year-old Southern Golf Association.
The SGA, which runs three of the country's most prestigious amateur tournaments and promotes amateur golf through a national amateur of the month award, named Foster president-elect at its annual directors meeting last week in Charleston, S.C. Foster will assume his 2-year term as president of the storied organization in January, 2005.
A member of the University of Tennessee golf team in 1960-64, Foster is on the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Golf Association and the Regional Affairs Committee of the USGA. He is a member of Knoxville's Cherokee C.C. and the exclusive Honors Course near Chattanooga, where the SGA's 98th Southern Amateur will be played in July.
"It is truly an honor and privilege to have the opportunity to serve as President of the Southern Golf Association," said Foster. "The organization has been blessed with strong and dedicated leadership throughout its 102 year history and I will do all that I can to further that tradition."
W. Gains of Chattanooga served as the first SGA president (1902-03). Other Tennesseans to rule the SGA were Horace Smith of Nashville (1940), James Tupper of Nashville (1946-50), A. Pollack Boyd of Chattanooga (1950-52) and Curtis Persons of Memphis (1970-71).
