1.   Of course, another way to avoid bogeys is to make birdies, and Woods is adept at that, too.

2.   Saturday, in the best weather the PGA Tour has seen in California this year, Kendall avoided a bogey and recorded four straight birdies on the back nine.

3.   He also managed to avoid bogey on hard greens that have been baked by a week of sunshine.

4.   He got rid of opening-day jitters on the first hole, avoided a bogey and was all smiles at the end of the round.

5.   Kirk Triplett, Fred Couples and Montgomerie were the only players to avoid bogey on the front nine among the early starters.

6.   McWhinney, one of two golfers who have won a Japan PGA title for the first time this season, also avoided bogeys.

7.   Only Goydos managed to avoid a bogey.

8.   Triplett, Couples and Colin Montgomerie were the only players to avoid bogey on the front nine.

9.   Lehman said the biggest problem on the course dubbed the Monster was not so much making birdies as avoiding bogeys.