"I won three of these."
/It's hard to imagine a worse media performance than Tiger's post first round comments. Granted, he just bogeyed 18 after hitting the fairway, but still...
TIGER WOODS: It was so bouncy out there. I mean I was explaining, I was telling Tom down there, the screens are just awful. It is what it is. It's poa in the afternoon and they're fast.
So you know they're going to be bouncing all over the place and you can't leave yourself a second putt. You saw Ernie's putt over there on 13, simple putt, but out here it's not. It's going to be bouncing all over the place.
In 2000 were the greens really that much better?
Q. Was it difficult not to compare this to 2000 for you as you're going around this course and what you did on each hole, or is that part of your mentality?
TIGER WOODS: No, this is this year. Don't forget, this is a completely different design, a complete redo from when we played. The holes are much different and the bunkering is much different. A few of the tees are totally different.
Take that, Arnold!
Q. This is a course you have to go out and try to blow the numbers?
TIGER WOODS: No, why.
Q. You talked about the opportunity to play in the morning?
TIGER WOODS: I won three of these.
Oops. Moving right along...
Q. How many drivers today?
TIGER WOODS: Probably just three.
Q. Your first 11 greens, were you feeling the way you were hitting the ball at least through that point was pretty good and doing exactly what you wanted out there?
TIGER WOODS: I felt like I did that most of the day. And you just -- as I said, you can't leave yourself a second putt out here, they're just not very good. And leaving myself above the hole is not a place, because it's going to be bouncing all over the place. And Lee and I were talking about that today, you would rather have a 30 foot below the hole rather than 10 foot above the hole. You can't control it. You can't control the putts.
It's all the greens' fault!
Q. Was your putt on 17 one that you felt this is makeable?
TIGER WOODS: Yes, it bounced about three feet in the air. It is what it is. All you can do is go out there and hit good putts and hopefully they kick in.
Is that a violin I hear playing in the background?