I just hope I make it to match play. There are hardly any tournaments that are match play anymore, and that's a shame. It's definitely a lot more exciting. For a public course, Santa Ana is in excellent shape. The fairways and the greens are in great condition.
Every blade of grass seems perfect.
No wonder it is considered one of the top public courses in the country. This week the course is playing very tough and long. We are playing it at 6,400 yards. That's the longest the USGA has ever made a course for this tournament, which was done because the USGA calculated we would be hitting about 10 to 15 percent farther at this altitude. With some hole locations, you have to hit the putt on a perfect line to have any chance of it going in.