Billy Peters
Billy Peters was born on July 17, 1929. He began an impressive volunteer career at the Georgia State Golf Association, serving on the rules committee in 1973. He has served on the GSGA Executive Board as president, as chairman of the rules committee, and has helped to rate golf courses. From 1980 to 1982, Mr. Peters served as the GSGA president. During his term, Mr. Peters acquired state qualifying events for the USGA and implemented the USGA-GHIN Handicap System in Georgia. Mr. Peters has been recognized as a rules expert and has been invited by the USGA to serve as a rules official at the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur. While serving as the 1983 president of the Georgia Junior Golf Foundation, Mr. Peters founded the Junior Golf Academy. He received a 1985 service to sports citation from the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, and the GSGA Presidents' Awards for the promotion of golf in 1975, and again in 1993. Mr. Peters is an honorary vice president of the Georgia PGA and in 1996 was elected as a lifetime honorary member of the Georgia PGA.

Billy Peters was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame on January 9, 1993.