The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has announced that Peter Forster will serve as its captain in 2021/22.
Forster, 70, has been nominated by the past captains of the club and will begin his year in office with the traditional driving-in ceremony on the first tee of the Old Course at St Andrews on Friday, 24 September 2021.
Born in Edinburgh, Forster was educated at Rannoch School followed by Agricultural College in Aberdeen. He started work on his family’s tenanted farm of Peacehill, ten miles north of St Andrews, in 1972. He purchased Peacehill Farm in 1990, expanding the property through acquisitions to 1,800 acres owned and 700 acres rented. He is now retired and continues to be a director of Peacehill Farming Ltd and Peacehill Gas Ltd.
He became a member of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club in 1972 and was elected to the club committee from 1999 to 2003 and served as its chairman from 2001 to 2003. He was appointed as a Trustee of St Andrews Links Trust from 2004 to 2013 and served as its chairman from 2009 to 2013. In 2020, he was elected chairman of the Inter-Clubs Liaison Committee in St Andrews.
Forster is also a member of The Ten Golf Club of St Andrews, Scotscraig Golf Club and the Seniors Golfing Society. He is Chief Locust of the Locust Golf Society, which was founded in 1964 by four members of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He is a member of the North East Fife Rotary Club and was made a Paul Harris Fellow in 2019.