Alan Shipnuck's SI Profile Of PGA CEO Pete Bevacqua

SI Golf Plus' Alan Shipnuck profiles PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua in extensive fashion and makes a case for the former USGA CBO as golf's most powerful executive.

While all of the bio stuff is fine and of interest perhaps to the PGA's 28,000 members, Shipnuck may be up for Nobel consideration after bringing Bevacqua and former PGA President Ted Bishop together again.

Bevacqua calls Bishop's denouement "without a doubt the toughest period of my professional life." It was his grim duty to deliver the news. Bevacqua called his friend's office and left a voice mail.

"That hurt," says Bishop.

They had spoken nearly every day for two years, but then the line of communication went silent. Finally in mid-January, following a couple of email volleys, Bishop wrote in another email to SI, "You prompted me to think out some things last week, and I reached out to Pete and we spoke today."

Bevacqua describes the call as "the weight of the world coming off my shoulders. I think we both felt that way. It's the beginning of rebuilding a relationship between two people who like each other and admire each other and love golf."