The purse was $12,000. Camerique Over the next four years it was the Palm Springs Golf Classic, from 1965-1983 it was the Bob Hope Desert Classic, the Bob Hope Classic in 1984 and 1985 ...
Many of the photographs were taken at the Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament, where I was the official photographer from ...
He was not just a movie star or a TV star, he wrote books, he wrote a newspaper column — he had a golf tournament with his name on it. Everybody knew what Bob Hope stood for and what his image was.
He also worked as a caddy and developed a lifelong fondness for golf. A highly competitive golfer, he later shot in the 70s and sponsored the Bob Hope Golf Classic, one of the nation's biggest ...