21.   McGann was accurate and long off the tee, leaving her with many short-iron approach shots that she could rifle right into the slightly soft greens.

22.   Mickelson likes the fact he has been able to shoot at every pin on the course because of the soft greens.

23.   Recent rains that softened the fairways made the course play longer while the soft greens allowed players to take aim at the pins.

24.   Shots that flew steady toward soft greens in the opening round were blown instead toward the tall meadow grass.

25.   Sigel took advantage of the wide fairways and soft greens at the Springhouse Golf Club to record six birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free round.

26.   Scoring conditions have been near perfect all week, with little wind and soft greens.

27.   Soft greens and perfect weather conditions welcomed the strongest field of the year as the U.S. PGA Championship opened Thursday on the venerable Riviera Country Club course.

28.   She was usually pulling a short iron out of the bag, setting up plenty of easy putts on the soft greens.

29.   Soft greens are always a recipe for lower scoring on any course.

30.   Taking advantage of soft greens, players took dead aim at pin placements that many described as tricker than they remembered.