Q. When you were moving to accommodate power outages, what were you losing that you needed to move generators to bring you back up to speed?
KERRY HAIGH: We were losing -- there were actually blackout wands that were available at this point and we moved just a couple of them.
Q. Scoreboards or any of that kind of stuff?
KERRY HAIGH: All of the scoreboards are manual out there, other than I think the media board here.
Q. I guess it's appropriate to ask who has been in contact with the officials of the county from the PGA of America, and what is the procedure for delaying or postponing a round within the organization?
KERRY HAIGH: Tournament director, Bob Jeffrey, and our security people have been talking, and obviously if and when we need to do something, we will.
At this point, we haven't been told anything other than, play will continue.
Q. Just what specifically do you lose as far as concessions or what-have-you, that affects fans' participation or attending this event, if there's a power outage such as this?
KERRY HAIGH: In honesty, not that much. I think most people out on the golf course were not aware that anything has happened. Certainly, I don't believe many of the golfers did. You've probably spoken to them, but certainly our rules officials and I don't think many spectators did out there. And I didn't until I was called on the radio.
Q. Logistically, what do you have in place, not so much if -- say the course isn't affected, but the traffic lights that are out, there's a jam-up here, do you have any liaison; exactly what steps are in place to take in the event of such an emergency?
KERRY HAIGH: I think it's fair to say this hasn't happened very often, thankfully, for all of us. We'll be meeting this evening to determine what needs to be done and we'll do our utmost to make sure it is done, in a quality manner to make sure everyone has a great championship.
Q. I know we've talked about this, coming in late, I'm just trying to clear things up. I just found out officially, we are in a state of emergency in Monroe County. Does that change your plans at this point?
KERRY HAIGH: Again, you know more than I do at this point. We'll talk with the necessary people and find out what that means.
Q. To the best of your knowledge, has TNT or any other broadcast been affected by the outage?
KERRY HAIGH: No, not in the least. I think they had a great telecast today and look forward to another one tomorrow.
Q. At any point this afternoon when the power outages started to happen, did you give any consideration, or what options were you considering in terms of letting either the spectators or the players know what was going on?
KERRY HAIGH: As I said earlier, I think nobody was really aware of it on the golf course. Everyone was enjoying the day. It's a dynamic situation and there's certainly no feeling or fear of emergency out on the golf course. Everyone was having a good time and I think continued to have a good time.
Q. Did you think that if you had put the information out, it could have caused some kind of discomfort among the people who were out there -- I'm not going to say panic, but people might have gotten concerned, or were you even thinking about that?
KERRY HAIGH: In honesty, no. I don't think we knew enough information to know other than there was a power outage in New York which was rolling over. And I think rolling power outages are things that happen. It happened in California last year. It's not a common occurrence, but it's happened and we're fully prepared, that we all cope and life goes on.
As I say, it was a shock and surprise to us that it even was happening.
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