ROYCE THOMPSON: We'd like to welcome Jordan Spieth to the media center. Jordan this will be your sixth start of the year, you had a T2 in Puerto Rico and a T7 in Tampa, and last year in this event, you finished tied for 41st. Jordan, just some opening comments about being here this week?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, I'm excited. It's one of the couple of events that I can come to where I've actually played in the tournament before. I love this place. I think it's a great atmosphere. I like the golf course a lot. It's severe. It's just a great Norman course, and I enjoy that.
It's very demanding off the tee, and I feel that's a strength of my game and ready to try to make something special happen this week.
Q. You like this course, which a lot of players don't admit to. Does Norman's design off the tee give you a lot of choices? Is it challenging in that respect? For example, on 17 you can go right and have a straight shot in, but you're flirting with the bunker to the right; whereas, if you're left, you've got to get back up over that mountain, and 11 there is a split fairway. Can you just kind of talk about that? It seems like it gives you some choices off the tee?
JORDAN SPIETH: Yeah, there are a couple of holes where it definitely gives you some choices and you have to pick a line. But most of the holes, it's more of there's that Fescue hazard, whatever you want to call it, on both sides. So you just can't let it go straight in either direction.
So I think the most important thing is picking that starting point down the middle of the fairway and trying to hit it dead straight off almost every tee instead of trying to work it too much, which I like.
Yeah, there are definitely a couple holes where you want to think through which side you want to go on, and if you want to be able to see the green or have a better angle, depending upon where the hole location is. But I like the fact that it's very tight and there is trouble on both sides. It's almost like you're playing out in the woods, except when you go into this stuff, you don't really come out of it.