Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.

On 17 we both hit the wrong clubs, eight-irons instead of nine-irons. I didn't have much of a shot and it was a bad lie in a hard pan. It was a question of landing the ball in the right spot and it was a bit of a shock when it went in. But then it was a great up-and-down by Ernie as well.

My swing is definitely not there. Yesterday I was very bad off the tee and I had to keep chopping out sideways. I was a bit better today, at least I kept the ball in play more.

I got off to a bad start on the first when I hit my second over the green and took a bogey five. Ernie then birdied quite a few holes on the front nine, but I struggled all day. While Ernie was always putting for birdies, I was scrambling.

I think the guys would like to play this type of golf course more often, ... I think this is a true test of your golf. You really cannot get away with any bad part of your game around here.

That was not the way I wanted to start -- I've had some bad rounds this year, especially some final rounds.

I would like to go for the greens, but I keep driving in the rough. That's the problem. I hit a few bad drives. I didn't quite drive it as well as I did Thursday. I need to work on that a little this afternoon, and hopefully play better Saturday.

Two under is not a bad start. That was pretty much as good as I could have shot. I didn't drive it well. I was making a lot of five-footers for par, which is not good.

At the start of the day I thought 11- or 12-under (would win), ... When I saw Tiger and Jay got off to a bad start I thought nine-under would be a good score.