The General Motors Corp.says it has officially terminated its sponsorship of the PGA Tour's annual Buick Invitational at Grand Blanc, Mich. The termination had been expected because the cash strapped auto maker anticipates dumping as many as 13,000 jobs by the end of the 2009 calendar year, part of an ongoing structuring procedure. Its a sad day to have to announce that news, Larry Peck, national promotions manager for Buick-GMC, told the Detroit News in a statement late Tuesday.

The PGA Tour and Buick said Tuesday that all working agreements between the two have ended and the Buick Open and Buick Invitational will no longer be played. The PGA Tour is expected to announce the Buick Open's replacement on its 2010 schedule Wednesday.

Tiger Woods shot a 3-under-par 69, finished at 20-under 268 and won his third Buick Open and 69th career title Sunday at Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc, Mich.

Tiger Woods, who missed the cut in a major event for the second time in his career, will try to turn things around beginning Thursday at the Buick Open. This will be the 11th PGA Tour appearance of the year for Woods and he has won three times. None of those victories, however, has come at a major.

Kenny Perry will not defend his 2008 title at the Buick Open golf tournament next week to stay with his cancer-stricken mother, the Detroit Free Press said. Mildred Perry is hospitalized in an undisclosed hospice and is battling multiple myeloma (blood cancer). Obviously I regret not being able to defend my title at the Buick, the native of Elizabethtown, Ken., told the newspaper Tuesday in a statement.