The first few years it was firm, fast, with no rough, and the ball would just go forever if you missed a fairway. That's the way I liked it. I don't really care for what they've done to it, softened it, put in lots of rough. It's still quite a test, but I think it was meant to play firm and fast.

The greens are receptive; it's a slaughter waiting to happen.

and Howell insists, ''He's the most straightforward, no BS guy I've ever met.

The main thing is we're trying to get them involved in is making healthy choices.

Hopefully, we'll learn that when we go on the road, teams aren't going to roll over for us,

I had good practice sessions, ... We always hit a lot of balls, then we go play. Nobody hits more balls than (Woods) at home, I'll tell you that. Vijay (Singh) included.

I had a good weekend of practice and felt good coming in here because it's a golf course where you don't have to be super long, ... It's playing fast enough that I can reach some of the par 5s in two and on the long par 4s I'm not hitting long irons in. I think I can compete that way.

I look at it as three really good matches to get us ready for the Big 12, ... We just have to work on it one point at a time and see where we end up.

I really wanted to put an end to this.

I just said, 'There's been an accident, and Timmy was killed, ... There's no good way to do that.