11.   Howard Twitty, a third-year senior who played more than two decades on the PGA Tour, thinks pin placement has been the biggest challenge this year.

12.   His challenge is finding six different pin placements on the deceptive greens.

13.   However, warm temperatures, reasonable pin placements and very little wind presented easier conditions than the players expected, at least for one day.

14.   If Stewart can stay out of sand divots and keep away from any circuslike USGA pin placements, maybe he can hang in all the way this year.

15.   New pin placements promise to have even his Stripeness chasing his own tail.

16.   Norman, after a four-birdie, three-bogey effort during a day of swirling winds and well-tucked pin placements, declined to declare himself invincible.

17.   One large limb hovers over the normal pin placement, making the ideal shot into the top of the tree.

18.   One pin placement was changed on the fifth hole before the suspension because of puddling on the greens.

19.   Pin placements came in for the most damning tirade, this reflecting the annual common displeasure with the blue-jacketed gentlemen sportsmen of the USGA.

20.   Pin placements on the already undulating greens created a game of miniature golf.