This PGA Tour event used to be so much fun because of one great man. Bob Hope..I miss his days here when he could still play and it was the Bob Hope Classic with his tailor made cart and of course the pretty girls, all the Presidents would show up to be the butt of his good natured one liners, Arnie won it 5 times, and the world's greatest entertainers would show how vulnerable they were out of their acting or singing roles, as they hacked their way around Bermuda Dunes and Indian Wells..
Nowadays it's much more corporate, the Humana Challenge in association with Bill Clinton, the weather in La Quinta is still perfect, there isn't much rough, the greens are gently rolling and the scores are low..
Round 4 wrap
Brian Gay won the Humana Challenge in a playoff, on the par-4 10th, putting his 9-iron second shot 5 1/2 feet below the hole against Charles Howell who drove into the right rough, hit into the back bunker, blasted out to 15 feet and two-putted for bogey.
The 41-year-old Gay, hardly an imposing figure at 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds, worked hard last year with Grant Waite and Joe Mayo to increase his driving distance.
"My whole game's been about accuracy and short game," Gay said. "I've always been a short hitter on the TOUR and I felt like as I was getting older I'm only going to get shorter and shorter. ... It was tough last year trying to play making those changes."
Gay closed with a 9-under 63 on PGA West's Arnold Palmer Private Course to match Howell and Swedish rookie David Lingmerth at 25-under 263. Howell shot a 64, and Lingmerth had a 62.
Lingmerth dropped out with a bogey on the first extra hole -- the par-5 18th -- after hitting his approach into the left-side water.
Scott Stallings, five strokes ahead entering the round, bogeyed the final hole for a 70 to miss the playoff by a stroke. Gay began the round six strokes behind Stallings.
Canadians Brad Fritsch T65 at 69 65 71 70 -13, Stephen Ames T37 continues his fine form 67 68 68 68 -17, David Hearn MC 71 66 72 -7, Graham DeLaet T65 71 70 65 69 -13 Mike Weir MC 67, 75 67 -9
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CHAMPIONS Tour
John Cook caught David Frost on the final hole of regulation, then beat him with birdie on the second playoff hole to win the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai
Cook closed with a 5-under-67 at Hualalai Golf Club to catch Frost at 17-under 199. Cook made a 16-foot birdie putt on the 18th green.
Frost shot a 69, missing a 15-foot birdie putt at the 18th that would have given him a win in the Champions Tour season-opener. He had held the lead alone since the 12th hole of the second round.
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Bryan Angus
(notes from pgatour.com)
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