Pete Bevacqua

Peter Paul Bevacqua (born 1971) is an American sports and media executive who is the athletic director at the University of Notre Dame. He previously was CEO of the Professional Golfers' Association of America from 2012 to 2018, and president and chairman of NBC Sports from 2018 to 2023.

Early life Bevacqua grew up in Bedford, New York. He began playing golf at a young age with his father, Arthur Bevacqua, a dentist. He attended Brunswick School in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut where he was valedictorian, senior class president and an all-league player in football, basketball and golf. He began caddying at the Bedford Golf and Tennis Club at age 10, training under head pro Walt Ronan, and continued to work summers there as a caddie and pro shop manager while attending the University of Notre Dame. He was also a walk-on punter for head football coach Lou Holtz at Notre Dame, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English in 1993. He then earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University, graduating cum laude in 1997.

Professional career Bevacqua began his professional career as a legal associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP in New York City before joining the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 2001. He first was the USGA's in-house counsel for two years. He was then promoted to USGA's first-ever managing director of the U.S. Open. In 2009, Bevacqua was appointed as the USGA's chief business officer. Bevacqua left USGA for CAA Sports three years later, in 2012, where he was Global Head of Golf. He was appointed as the CEO of the PGA in fall 2012. He subsequently signed to two contract extensions, one in November 2013 and another in November 2017, which was due to carry him through 2024.

A former SportsBusiness Journal “Forty Under 40” Award recipient in 2009, Bevacqua was honored with the prestigious “Sports Leadership Award” by the March of Dimes in November 2016. Bevacqua was named by Sports Business Journal as one of the 125 most influential sports executives of the last 25 years in December 2025. Bevacqua also is on the management committee of the College Football Playoffs.

He is a board member of RISE, an alliance of sports organizations that promotes racial equality. Bevacqua has been on the board of directors of Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT, and previously was a Member of the Board of Visitors with the Georgetown University Law Center.

Personal life Bevacqua and his wife, Tiffany, have one daughter and two sons.