Martin Pinto retires from SAGDB

Martin Pinto, one of the longest serving directors of the SA Golf Development Board, has reached the SAGDB’s official retirement age. Pinto joined the SAGDB in 2000 when the board merged with the Golf Development Trust.

Pinto has served in a number of executive capacities at the SAGDB over the last ten years and was a member of the board of directors that steered the SAGDB through a difficult restructuring phase in 2006.

Pinto has played more than one role in sports development in South Africa, having been the first black president of the SA Golf Association. He was also a member of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa.

He started the Golf Development Trust in the early 1990s, before South Africa’s golfing structures decided to combine their efforts into a single development body in 2000. The Trust was then merged with the SAGDB, which is now the officially recognised body for growing the game.