Golf Day

Well today the Den Parents attended the Humana PGA Golf Tournament at the Palmer Private Club in La Quinta.  It has been quite a saga collecting the information to allow this to happen.  Confusingly, the tournament, in it's early days takes place on 4 different courses.  In finding the courses they were directed to a wrong course by a resort that is literally across the street from one of the real courses.  Then there was the parking.  Everyone knew there was only off-site parking with shuttle buses but opinion varied as to where this parking was.  One source said it was at at X; the next source said it used to be a X but this year it was at a new location - a vacant field; the next source said there was parking at 3 places but the shuttle buses for scooters were only at one - although not sure just which one.  Finally, there were specific directions to the correct site but when the Den Parents followed them today, the directions were to the Exit and they had to back track several blocks to find the entrance and then cross the vacant field back near the Exit.  Anyway - they finally got to the course and had a great day watching the golf and experiencing the atmosphere of a PGA event.  They saw some golfers they recognized from TV such as Justin Leonard, Rocco Mediate, and Rory Sabbatini.  This was a Pro-Am day so each group consisted of 2 pros and 2 amateurs (supposedly celebrities).  One of the surprising "celebrities" was Hugh Rodham (Hilary Clinton's brother).
The two major disappointments were that because of all the uncertainty about parking and shuttles, we bears had to stay home - and cameras were not allowed.  So below are some shots Den Dad took last week when we were researching, at a course near to us, but, as it turned out, not one of the host courses (although they share the same mountains).

Obviously - Mountain View Golf Course - in La Quinta, California