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Hope leaders have plenty of company - BOB HOPE CLASSIC: Watson, Prugh share the top spot, but there are 16 players within 5 shots.

Published on Sunday, January 24, 2010
By MIRJAM SWANSON


LA QUINTA - Seventy-two holes, 3.35 inches of rain and five days after the Bob Hope Classic began, not a stroke separates the two men at the top of the leaderboard.

Second-round leader Bubba Watson double bogeyed No. 18 to slip back into a tie with third-round leader Alex Prugh, who bogeyed his final hole. The two enter today's fifth and final round all square, co-leaders at 23 under par.

They will try to fend off each other -- and 16 others within 5 shots -- in just the third Monday finish in the tournament's 51-year history. Play was postponed Thursday on account of all the rain.

"I'm looking forward to the battles tomorrow, with myself and the golf course," said Watson, who settled for a 2-under-par 69 on Sunday after finding the water and then missing a 6-foot bogey putt on his final hole of the day at the Nicklaus Private course.

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