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Golfers and the crowds were out in full style on this, the second day of official play--and so was the wildlife.

A bear and a deer made appearances about noon with onlookers nearby, the bear traipsing onto the 14th Fairway as Scott Hoch of Orlando, Fla., was teeing up.

Hoch continued his play, driving the ball over the head of the bear, who scampered across and into the underbrush on the fairway's west edge, according to witnesses.

However, this was not before it treated itself to sniffing a few trash cans, then picked up the plastic water jug belonging to course volunteer Dick Simpson. The bear's claws left two puncture holes in the insulated container.

"I was standing at the crossing with about 20 to 30 people, " said Simpson. "I kept the people away. The bear was about 20, maybe 30, feet from us. He picked up my water jug, then threw it down. Then he smelled my (fold-up) chair and left it alone."

That's when the bear wandered onto the fairway where Hoch was about to play, Simpson said, who thought it was an adult-sized black bear.

Another witness gave details of the animal's anctics. Charles Dahlem of Colorado Springs, another course volunteer in the area, saw it all too.

"The bear was right there in the middle of the fairway," Dahlem said, pointing out the exact location. "He was spooked by all the people. Hoch just went ahead and hit his ball, and the bear went into the bushes."

Dahlem speculated whether the bear was one of a set of three that is said to live on the Broadmoor's East Course near the tee box of Hole No. 18.

"A mother bear lives with two cubs in the trees near there, from what I'm told," Dahlem explained.

A tamer spectator caused less of a buzz. A buck lay quietly in the bushes through it all, nonchalant in its being surrounded by dozens of walkers-by, in the same area of brush from where the bear had come.

One has to wonder if the bears and deer run amok under the stars, prancing on fairways and greens after the rest of us have gone home, and thereby need rest in daytime as the rest of the "wild life" passes by.