The PGA of America has named Lewine Mair as the 2025 recipient of the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. Mair and her outstanding career will be honored in April during the 51st annual ISPS Handa Golf Writers Association of America Dinner in Augusta, Georgia.
The PGA of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism recognizes members of the media for their steadfast promotion of golf. Mair, who currently serves as a Senior Writer for Global Golf Post, is the 34th recipient and second woman to receive the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism.
“Lewine Mair has made an incredible impact on golf journalism while covering our great game,” says PGA of America President Don Rea Jr. “She continues to demonstrate an uncanny ability to discover and tell many of golf’s greatest stories on and off the course.”
Mair, born and raised in Birmingham, England, was a talented youth golfer and competed for Great Britain & Ireland against France at the under-21 level. She became interested in writing after watching three-time British women’s amateur champion Enid Wilson cover events for The Daily Telegraph.
“I remember thinking I’d love to do her job,” said Mair.
Mair’s journalism career was up and running when, as a 17-year-old, she was hired to write golf columns for the Birmingham Planet. She was still a teenager when she met her future husband, Norman, an accomplished golf and rugby writer for The Scotsman, and she was only 20 when The Times asked her to fill in on various golf assignments.
Mair accepted a position as a sports feature writer with The Daily Telegraph in 1992. She earned a highly-acclaimed promotion to Golf Correspondent five years later, becoming the first woman to hold the role at The Daily Telegraph and the first to secure a specialist position on the sports pages of a UK national newspaper – a groundbreaking moment for both her career and sports journalism.
Mair served as The Daily Telegraph’s golf correspondent before joining Global Golf Post in 2010. She still covers men’s and women’s events in Europe, plus the Middle and Far East.
The Association of Golf Writers (AGW) appointed Mair President in 2021, making her the first woman President in the then-83-year history of the organization. Mair previously served as the AGW’s first woman Chairman from 2007–10 and helped the membership expand to countries outside of Europe, including India.
Reflecting on her sports writing career spanning more than 50 years and countless memorable stories, Mair is grateful for her experiences and remains passionate about her craft.
“To win this PGA award is such an honor,” says Mair. “Writing isn’t always easy and, as one of the few women in the trade, the fact that I’ve tended to be a bit of a loner as opposed to ‘one of the boys’ has made it still more special.”
