Attending Wednesday's practice round with my wife in the 96-
degree heat, luckily a breeze kicked up some to keep it tolerable.
Got there after the early morning players who only played 9
finished and went to the range.
Steve, Hank, and Eldrick:
The range was moved from Maniac Hill to the first two holes on courses 1 and 3 or 5 (?). Here's the lower tee, with Beem
and Langer to the left of Tiger.
Ian Poulter and Luke Donald in the house:
Beem and Langer:
With a 1 second delay on a digital camera, it's very hard to
catch a swing in motion. You have to predict and click just
before the swing. Took me several tries to get this.
A view to the upper tee:
David Leadbetter working with slender "Thurston" Howell III:
Defending champion:
The famous ponytail:
Range show #2 arrives:
Bones lays out towels at 25-yard intervals from Mickelson (via range finder) down the side of the range for him to hit to:
Out to 200 yards:
Rick Smith (yellow) and Dave Pelz observing Phil:
And this starts my quasi-reverse trip around the course.
#17 green from back right. Fan Favorite Sabbatini is in there somewhere:
Up #18 across #17 green:
Chad Campbell from fairway bunker on #14:
#14 from left side:
#13:
#12:
Newly-turned pro Spencer Levin on #12 in group that
included Casey Wittenberg and Trip Kuehne:
#11 green, with Monty in white shirt/white visor:
Monty coming down off #12 tee. They were discussing the
Sabbatini incident while this was snapped.
One more post to go with more pics......