Tiger Woods (68): "I couldn't have asked for a better start. Then I made a lot of good par putts and that always feel good. I just tried to plod away. That's all you can do. The course is playing so long and so difficult. I'm ecstatic to be on top, but there's a long way to go. I still have to go out and play hard."
Padraig Harrington (68): "It was a good day to play well and I was not getting distracted by the weather. Over the years guys who have been paired with Tiger on Saturday or Sunday have tended to be affected negatively. There can be a distraction factor, but I've played with him and I'm not interested in what he is going to do, only what I do."
Sergio Garcia (74): "Do we have to be swimming here to stop play or something? I don't know, if Tiger Woods had been out there (Woods had finished earlier) I think it would have been called. There was a moment when not even the squeegees was going to help. I really felt like it probably should have taken a 40 or 45-minute break. It got to a point where it was a little too extreme."
