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American Cancer Society’s 5th Annual Desert Golf Invitational
Honors Desert Sun Golf Writer
Larry Bohannan
Larry Bohannan, golf writer and columnist for The Desert
Sun, is the Celebration of Life Award Honoree for American
Cancer Society’s 5th Annual Desert Golf Invitational Golf
Tournament to be played January 24, 2020 at Indian Wells
Country Club.
Registration will open at 10am where golfers
will enjoy a live clinic on the driving range from
2019 Desert Golf Invitational Celebration of
Life Honoree Bill Harmon. The shotgun start is
noon, followed by a cocktail reception, auction
and dynamic awards dinner, featuring KESQ
News Channel 3 Anchor John White KESQ
and auctioneer Clint Bell. Media
sponsors for the Desert Golf
Invitational are KESQ
News Channel 3,
the Desert Sun,
MIX 100.5 - The
Desert’s Best
MIX, 98.5 The
Bull, KNews
94.3 FM,
107.3 MOD fm,
and The Eagle
106.9. 2020 sponsors include: Hermann
Design Group, Inc., AES Wind Generation,
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians,
Austin Beneteau, FIC, Modern Woodmen
of America, and VIP Urgent Care. You can
register a foursome or as an individual at
www.acsdesertgolfinvitational.org. Tickets
to the Awards Dinner can be purchased
as well. For sponsorship and underwriting
opportunities, please contact Kelli Biello,
ACS Development Manager for Distinguished
Events, 760.340.6315 or kelli.biello@cancer.
org
Bohannan was diagnosed with prostate
cancer in August 2019. His reaction to the
news, his search for the proper treatment
through a maze of doctors and other survivors
and some difficult nights dealing with the
realities of cancer prompted him to write a
column to his readers in November 2019
about his cancer journey. In December he
underwent robotic surgery and returned to
work just two days before New Year’s Day.
He has been the golf writer and columnist for the
Desert Sun since 1986. A 1982 graduate of Cal
State Fullerton with a B.A. in Communications, he
worked at the Hi-Desert Star in Yucca Valley from
1982 to 1986 before joining the Desert Sun in 1986.
As the principle golf writer for the paper since then,
he has covered events on the PGA Tour, LPGA
Tour, PGA Tour Champions and other professional
events in the desert and throughout California. He
also covered high school, college and amateur golf
in the desert.
His columns and stories have won numerous
Associated Press Sports Editors and California
Newspaper Publishers Association awards. In
2012, he was named the California Golf Writers
and Broadcasters Association’s Media Man of the
Year. He is the author of two books about golf in
the Coachella Valley, “Fifty Years of Hope” on the
first 50 years of the Bob Hope Classic, and “Palm
Springs Golf: A History of Coachella Valley Legends
and Fairways” documenting the beginnings and the
rise of the game in the desert.
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