Greetings From The Players, Wednesday Edition

Delightful day of traveling. Really. Another benefit of the recession: planes on time, lots of empty seats and no shoving to get those baggage bins filled. The Jacksonville airport is a beauty, which all of the PGA Tour VP's deserve for all of the traveling they do.

Then I stepped outside into the sauna.

Oh how I forgot that wonderful combination of pine, swamp wetlands, alligator sweat and the muggy day hints of burning trash (LA smog smells so much better, but I'm biased.)

Turns out, my friend and passionate Jax defender Mark Spencer says this is a dry heat for the area. Wow.

I know from reading Garry Smits tonight that No. 17 plays a lot tougher downwind since the move to May, and after my first hit of southern humidity in a while, I'll be rooting to see air movement for different reasons.

Nonetheless I look forward to getting a glimpse of the course for the first time in twenty years and the event for the first time ever. I'm sure it'll live up to the hype and then some. More tomorrow.