RBC Heritage tournament director Steve Wilmot is glad the uncertainty for his PGA Tour event is over, even if his stomach hasn’t fully settled from the nearly two-year search for a title sponsor.
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RBC Heritage tournament director Steve Wilmot is glad the uncertainty for his PGA Tour event is over, even if his stomach hasn’t fully settled from the nearly two-year search for a title sponsor. Last week, the tour, the state of South Carolina and the Heritage Classic Foundation announced that Royal Bank of Canada had agreed to underwrite the cash-strapped event through 2016.
DUBLIN, Ohio-Not that many years ago, Steve Stricker was looking for sponsor’s exemptions to get into events.
Seo received one of the three sponsor's exemptions to get into the tournament, her sixth on the LPGA Tour. The 23-year-old Seo, an 11-time winner on the Korean women's tour, now has the option to become an LPGA Tour member this or next season.
Jill Biden gave the commencement address at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island on Sunday. In her speech, Biden reminisced about the Senator Claiborne Pell, former Rhode Island senator and sponsor of the Pell Grant. She also discussed the transformative power of education, saying: ” Your favorite courses have literally altered the path you will take in life. As a lifelong student myself and now as a community college professor, I know this from my own experience.”
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Call it karma, luck or fate, but former Navy man Billy Hurley III received a sponsor exemption last week just hours after Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Ryan Lavner has the story.
The day after Osama bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs in Pakistan, Navy man Billy Hurley III was given the last of four sponsor exemptions into this week’s Nationwide Tour event.
Without a title sponsor, The Heritage is on the clock. Sunday’s final round at Harbour Towns Golf Links, when Brandt Snedeker happily slipped on his plaid champions coat and held the trophy high as fans applauded the thrilling finish, could have been The Heritage’s last hoorah. The PGA Tour fixture since 1969 is without a title sponsor and desperately seeking the $8 million or so it would…
With a new sponsor on board for 2011 and the continued backing of one of Spain’s most recognisable players, the future of the Open de Andalucía de Golf by Turkish Airlines appears to be soaring.
Former major-league pitcher John Smoltz has accepted a sponsor exemption into the Nationwide Tour’s South Georgia Classic, to be played April 28-May 1 at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club in Valdosta, Ga. It will be his first career start in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.
The longtime Heritage golf tournament likely won’t make it past April without finding a title sponsor.
What is needed to take the step from being a good amateur to becoming a Tournament Golf Professional? It is not easy and could be one of the most challenging tasks you undertake. You need support to do this and this is where a sponsor can help. For the sponsor there are a number of great benefits they will receive including a return on their investment plus a real interest in professional golf which can make the experience an exciting journey for both parties.
Golf Digest has become the fifth sponsor to drop Tiger Woods since details of his affairs became public.
NEW YORK: Tiger Woods and Golf Digest announced the end of the golf star’s 13-year relationship with the magazine on Thursday, what had been the second-longest sponsorship deal for the 14-time major champion.
