Global Golf Post - July 19, 2010

Global Golf Post has learned that the PGA
Tour has found a title sponsor for its World Golf
Championships event at Doral, starting in 2011.
Sources said an auto company will fill the void
created when CA Technologies opted out of its
contract after the 2010 tournament. That leaves
The Players, Bob Hope, Hilton Head and Mem-
phis as the Tour stops in search of sponsors.
Tom Watson strongly indicated that his last
Open Championship appearance would be in
2014, the last year of his exemption. “I don’t
know how my body is going to be in five years,”
he told the Liverpool Daily Post. “I think that the
extent of my exemption goes to 2014 at Hoylake
– I think that’s where it (his farewell) would be.”

Laura Davies will be making
her 26th consecutive start in the
Ricoh Women’s British Open when
it is played July 29-Aug. 1 at Royal
Birkdale Golf Club, the links course
where she won the championship
in 1986. The 46-year-old native
of Coventry, England, has won 54
international titles, including the

1987 U.S. Women’s Open.

Laura Davies

The Brisbane Courier Mail reports that the
Palm Meadows course on the Queensland Gold
Coast will close Aug. 1. According to the paper,
course owner Hungtat Worldwide, a company
linked to Macau casino king Stanley Ho, an-
nounced the 22-year-old Carrara course was
“no longer financially viable.”
Anna Rawson, 28, a two-time Australian
Amateur champion, part-time model and cur-
rent LPGA Tour player, recently became engaged
to Ted Chervin, 46, a former federal prosecutor
who now is head of worldwide television at Inter-
national Creative Management in Los Angeles.

Jim Colbert should make
his 500th career start on the
Champions Tour in the next
few weeks. He then will join
a select group of Champions
Tour players to reach that
number. Miller Barber leads
with 603 starts, followed by
Dale Douglass (598), Jim
Dent (540), Walt Zembriski (527), Harold Henning
(520), Orville Moody (513), Rocky Thompson (506)
and Jim Albus (505).

Jim Colbert

U.S. Curtis Cup star Jennifer Johnson, a
Duramed Futures Tour amatuer who would have
been an Arizona State sophomore, will make her
pro debut at the Tour’s Alliance Bank Golf Clas-
sic in Syracuse, N. Y., July 30-Aug. 1.
Five finalists were interviewed for Olympic
Golf CEO during the week at St. Andrews. Only
one is thought to come from golf. The position,
likely to be based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is
expected to be filled by the end of August.
French sensation Victor Dubuisson, who
worked his way to the top of the World Amateur
Golf Ranking last in 2009, turns pro today after
missing the cut at The Open Championship. Du-
buisson will retain IMG to represent him and will
sign a deal to play Titleist equipment. l

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