Footjoy has announced that Russell Lawes has been appointed sales and marketing director for the U.K. region with immediate effect. For the past ten years, he has served as Footjoy's marketing manager. Lawes will be responsible for the overall sales and marketing operations in the U.K., Ireland and South Africa as well as the distributor markets of Europe and the Middle East. He will be based at the company's European headquarters in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire.