Dropped my laptop in the rough yesterday and couldn't find it!
It's very thick but even rough, and the graduated concept appears to be well-prepped and the players seem to think it is fair. They are not double-cutting greens or rolling the greens, and will be single mowing (or perhaps double-cutting) only to get speeds in 12.5 range, not much above.
If course continues to dry out and if wind above 10 mph materialies, it will play very tough. But the course is extremely fair. You never know with scores, but there will surely be an enormous spread in scores and little compression of the talent field.
I think the major rough, 3.5-4.5 inches, will be very hard to hit anything more than an 8-9 iron out, and in aa case it'll have no spin. Fairways are the issue; Mickelson said yesterday that distance wasn't the issue. I never is with these guys. But here, fairways in regulation will go a long way towards determining the winner.
You'l see very high scores occasionlly on 8 and 15, two of the hardest holes to hit the fairway.