Courses are not getting any shorter. I could not hit the ball an average of 279, 280 (yards) and compete out here still. I needed to get eight to 10 more yards somehow. It makes a big difference.

Seriously, I'd like to see them make it 20 yards shorter so more guys would try [to drive it]. My philosophy there is, if I feel like I can get too close to the green with a driver, I don't hit it.

Should have hit a softer 7-iron.

I don't know how it didn't go in. That was probably the best putt I hit all day, as far as (hitting it) exactly where I wanted to hit it, exactly the speed I wanted to hit it, and it looked like it would break in the right edge. And it never broke.

You have to hit 3- or 4-iron and make sure you have a downhill slope.

But if he's able to consistently wait on the ball and see it a little longer and have a shorter stroke to the ball, the strikeouts can be cut down without losing his great power.