Five-time tour-winning Camilo Villegas has been voted new chairman of the PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council (PAC).

Villegas will chair a committee of 16 players including the likes of World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Justin Thomas.

Villegas joins five other player directors in Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Peter Malnati.

As we well know from the events these past two years taking place outside-the-ropes, the PAC advises and consults with the PGA Tour Policy Board and commissioner Jay Monahan on issues affecting the tour.

The Tour also advised the 42-year-old Colombian-born Villegas will serve in that role for the remainder of 2024 and then at the 1st January, 2025 Villegas will step-up to replace Jordan Spieth as a player director on the policy board, and serve in that role for a customary three-year term (2025-27).

The now Jupiter, Florida-based Villegas first won the PGA Tour at the 2008 BMW Championship and then shocked the golf world a fortnight later in capturing the Tour Championship.  He then captured the 2010 Honda Classic and a long four years later secured victory at the 2014 Wyndham Championship.

In 2020, there was the terrible heartache when Villegas’ 22-month-old daughter Mía died after battling tumours on her brain and spine. Following her death, the PGA Tour paid tribute to her in the following tournaments, including the PGA Championship, and the Wyndham Championship, by giving players small rainbow pins for their caps, as Camilo revealed Mia’s immense love for rainbows. Many players continued wearing the pins in their caps for the rest of the season, and Villegas received tremendous support within the PGA community, the sporting world, and his fans in Colombia.

A month after her death, Villegas made a return to competitive golf; making starts in Korn Ferry Tour tournaments, to the acclaim of his fellow competitors.

There was then joy and also tears all round in November last when Villegas ended a more than nine-year winless drought in capturing the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, and win that also earned him a 2024 Masters invitation, and in not only what will be first in nine years in returning to Augusta Natoinal but also a first major championship since 2015.

As winner of the 2010 Honda Classic, he is among 10 former champs teeing-up this week at PGA National.