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Not only will next year’s Bob Hope Chrysler Classic feature a different tournament host, but it also will have a different host course. It was announced last week that Palm Desert’s Classic Club, which has been the PGA Tour event’s host course for the last three years, will be taken out of the four-course rotation in 2009 and replaced with the Nicklaus Private Course at PGA West. The Palmer Private Course, also at PGA West, will be the new host venue. The decision was borne from many Tour players’ critiques of the Classic Club’s location, which was deemed too windy during the tournament. “For the good of the tournament, to protect the field, we felt we ought to react,” Classic president John Foster told The Desert Sun. “The issue we have was with the wind. It was just on certain days when we played and the other courses didn’t have any wind.” Foster added the Classic Club, which is the only course actually owned by a PGA Tour event, would not be permanently eliminated from the rotation. The H.N. and Frances Berger Foundation of Palm Desert donated the property to the tournament in 2005. In mid-March, Hope officials announced comedian George Lopez would not return as host of the event for a third year. Later in the month, Arnold Palmer, a five-time winner of the tournament, was named the 2009 host, in part to commemorate the event’s 50th anniversary. Besides the two PGA West tracks, the other two courses in the 2009 rotation will be Bermuda Dunes Country Club and SilverRock Resort, which debuted at the 2008 Hope Classic. For the latest on golf news from around Southern California, check back daily to Southland Golf. |
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