Tour Arrives At Firestone So Talk Naturally Shifts To Kiawah Next Week

What is there to say? It's Firestone...a small no-cut field the week before a major, so to avoid talking about a tree-lined back-and-forth layout, Adam Scott was asked about PGA Championship host Kiawah, where he just visited.

ADAM SCOTT:  Yeah, it was interesting, it wasn't quite what I expected, although I didn't‑‑ I'd only seen the pictures in magazines, which obviously are quite stunning.  Yeah, it's two different nine holes.  The front nine is a really nice, playable golf course, and then the back nine is not.  (Laughter.)

The back nine is very severe, and it's going to really‑‑ it's going to be interesting down there.  Look, it rained a lot while I was there the last two days, and it's playing very soft and very long.  You know, it's going to be very weather dependent.  There's good scores out there in good weather, but if the wind blows, it's just going to be very difficult, even if they move tees forward and stuff like that.  Green complexes are very severe on some holes, and there is‑‑ it's just extreme penalty for a miss.  There's water one side and big waste bunkers the other.  It's certainly going to need some ball‑striking.

Tiger offered a similar scouting report.

TIGER WOODS:  It was really soft.  I don't think it's going to be like that during the tournament.  It rained almost two inches the night before.  It's going to be long.  I mean, I think it's going to be close to 7,700 yards, and that's a big ballpark.  A lot of the holes are crosswind holes.  It's different than what‑‑ and Joey has been there a couple times, but he hasn't seen it like this.  Having paspalum greens is different.  I've only played on paspalum greens one time.  But they drain great.  They're going to be firm.

Right now when I played it was slow, but it's going to be a great test.  It's going to be‑‑ I don't know how the spectators are going to get around this place.  First of all, I don't know how they're going to get to it.  But once they're there, it's going to be a great environment.

Gosh, it just sounds like it's going to be a super week!