A Perfect Fit

Guiberson succeeding Jervey as executive director of the CWGA

As of this month, the Colorado Women’s Golf Association has its first new executive director in 22 years. Ann Guiberson is succeeding Robin Jervey, who has moved to Massachusetts to be with her fiancé, Scott Whitcomb, and to become director of event management for Boston-based JBC Golf, which runs the Legends Tour—the LPGA equivalent of the Champions Tour for players 45 and older.

Something of a legend herself, Jervey oversaw the CWGA’s growth—in staff size, in junior golf and tournament participation, and in revenue. Above all, she stimulated the growth of Colorado’s reputation in the national golf community. Her impeccable knowledge of the Rules of Golf earned her officiating positions at the Masters, U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, U.S. Women’s Open and other USGA championships. She also served on the USGA’s Rules of Golf, Handicap Procedure, Joe Dey Award and Regional Associations committees; became the first woman to represent a women’s golf association on the board of International Association of Golf Administrators; and in 2010 was elected the IAGA president.

And her skills as a player certainly served her well. A club champion at Meridian and Baltusrol (in New Jersey, where she made it to the finals of the 1985 state match play), she won three consecutive CWGA Brassie Championships with partner Kelly Schaub and competed in four USGA Championships.

If any résumé stacks up to Jervey’s, it belongs to Guiberson, a highly decorated collegiate golfer at the University of Nebraska who worked for the CWGA from 1995 to 1999 before leaving to become the USGA’s director of regional affairs for the East and Great Lakes Regions—“an enormous territory,” she says—and director of the USGA Women’s State Team Championship. As executive director, she says she’ll be resolute in her desire to “make golf fun and welcoming” and will continue her predecessor’s work in “increasing participation, improving affordability and growing and retaining membership.”

“With me wanting to move east to be with Scott and my family and with Ann wanting to move closer to her family in Fort Collins, we used to joke that we should just switch jobs,” Jervey said prior to leaving. “And it just about worked out that way. I couldn’t leave the CWGA in better hands.”

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