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THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

March 24, 2005

Ernie Els

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA

Q. Just talk about first of all, how did you feel the course played today?

ERNIE ELS: The course was wet obviously. It was a little different with not having cut fairways. That made it a little bit tricky, but I thought the greens were great, the course was actually not in bad shape after all the rain.

Q. What was, I guess, the high point of your day?

ERNIE ELS: You know, I had a good front nine, but on the back nine I missed a couple of shots on the wrong sides and I made bogeys on them, and I didn't play the par 5s well, so that's basically that.

Q. How was your putting, your short game?

ERNIE ELS: Everything was fine. You know, as I say, I missed a couple of shots on the wrong sides, and on this course you can't do that. I made two bogeys when I did that, but for the rest of it, it was pretty solid.

Q. Do you feel like you put yourself in good -- I mean, is this a good opening day, you put yourself in good position?

ERNIE ELS: I would have liked to have more. Today was not the most difficult weather day, so I'm a little bit disappointed in making 71. I thought I played a little better.

But it's under par and it could have been worse.

Q. Some of the players said that today really set up for a good score, so do you feel like it was an opportunity, maybe an opportunity missed for you today?

ERNIE ELS: Yeah, I just said that. Hopefully I can play the next three days without silly mistakes. I made some silly mistakes and that's why I'm 1-under and not 3- or 4-under.

Q. You talked on Tuesday that you were worried about mud on the ball, things like that. Did you get a lot of mud shots out there? Was it as bad as you anticipated it would be?

ERNIE ELS: It wasn't that terrible, but we still had mud on the ball.

As I said, that's one of those difficult things with us, you know, you can't control that. When they cut these fairways I think we're really going to get some mud on the ball then because it's really going to compress as it hits the fairways.

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