"It's too &*%$#+ hard"

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Steve Elling posts a blog item about Stephen Ames not caring for the firmness of the TPC Sawgrass greens after his opening 74.

"I have said all along, with the changes, this course was going to be borderline," he said of its fairness factor after the 2007 revisions. "And that's exactly what it is. The balls don’t even make pitchmarks on the green, they're so hard."

A handful of other players saw shots on the 17th carom off the green and into the water, including Matt Kuchar, whose ball bounced twice on the green, and still plopped into the lake.

Ames said his approach shot on the 18th landed 50 feet short of the pin, yet rolled all the way off the back of the green. As he stomped away from the scoring area, Ames spotted a tour employee and let loose some steam.

"It's too &*%$#+ hard," Ames said, within earshot of several reporters. "Go ahead, keep building courses like this."