41.   With the soft conditions, long hitters such as Robbins will only gain more of an advantage.

42.   Yet there is a prevailing thought that lengthening the course and adding rough may favor long hitters like Woods and Duval even more.

43.   Woods, the defending champion, is the favorite on a course that rewards long hitters.

44.   Pak missed only one fairway off the tee and was consistently out-driving her playing partner Michiko Hattori, known in Japan as a long hitter herself.

45.   Captain Lanny Wadkins went with experience and paired long hitters with short hitters.

46.   Does Carnoustie favor the long hitter because of its length, or the accurate hitter because of its punishing rough on the skirts of already tight fairways.

47.   Faced with a field that featured long hitters and celebrated youngsters, Mike Hulbert and Donna Andrews won the JCPenney Classic on Sunday with simple, steady golf.

48.   Ernie Els might be one of the few long hitters strong enough to hit the ball out of the rough with any distance.

49.   For years now, even moderately long hitters have been able to blow the ball over that bunker.

50.   It favors players who are either long hitters or draw the ball off the tee.