Published on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By GREGG PATTON
LA QUINTA - Sunscreen? Check. Sunglasses? Check.
The Bob Hope Classic, with its roster of celebrities and its casual air, always presents a surreal menu, for a major sports event.
Opening day Wednesday was no different, the tourney even separating itself from the weather chaos all around. While most of Southern California sloshed through battering rainstorms and kept an eye out for mudslides, there was a full day of golf in the desert.
Such as it is.
To review, this is the PGA Tour stop where spectators ask Bo Jackson, Kurt Russell and Bruce Jenner for the autographs and leave the golfers alone.
It's been a while, of course, since the tourney drew a strong field of touring pros. Mike Weir, at No. 37, is the highest-ranked golfer in the mix this time.
Tiger Woods has never played here. The closest the Hope will ever get to Tiger is current entry Jesper Parnevik, the matchmaker who put Woods and wife Elin together, a round now scored as a 14-over par.
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