Martin Slumbers is due to bring his nine-year tenure as the R&A's CEO to an end later this year following a final Open Championship at Royal Troon and an AIG Women's Open at St Andrews' Old Course.
He will be replaced by Mark Darbon in November, the man who left his position as CEO of Premiership Rugby club, Northampton Saints and who has also been a senior member of the team leading the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
