"It would be different if I had been playing downwind or something."
He was playing downwind; that hole is usually played into the prevailing wind.
The tame opening hole, another characteristic of many great courses, usually plays downwind.
It is 226 yards uphill but also will play mostly downwind.
"It was interesting because 13 played downwind," he said after shooting par 72.
You get to 14 and it's playing downwind.
But since it is on the outgoing nine, that hole plays downwind under normal conditions.
Birdies must be made at the sixth and seventh, the first two of three par-5 holes on the course that are playing downwind this week.
Strange only got a par 5 on the 524-yard hole playing downwind.
On the 472-yard par-4 18th, also playing downwind, Ballesteros drove with a 4-iron and hit a 7-iron 45 feet short of the pin.