More than 100 members of Japan’s Professional Golfers Association have lost their jobs in the wake of a scandal involving two of the group’s top executives.
The executives had played golf and shared a meal with the head of an organized crime group earlier this year, and they were dismissed in October. Now, the PGA has effectively cleaned house, as its chairman, its four vice chairmen, 20 board members and all 91 of its area representatives have resigned en masse.
The officials reportedly took the action to restore public trust in the PGA. “We take the matter very seriously,” the group’s current vice chairman said in a comment published by the Guardian. “We want to do our utmost to prevent something similar from happening again.”
A new slate of officials will be elected soon.