51.   The pin placements.

52.   Tough pin placements surprised many of the players.

53.   Tournament officials appeared to heed the warnings on pin placements, giving the players plenty of birdie chances.

54.   With a late tee time, Els tuned into the BBC to check out pin placements and see how balls were bouncing on the quirky Old Course.

55.   In addition, Faldo predicted that the pin placements would be toughened up, further spreading out the leaders.

56.   And to toughen things even further he called on the Royal and Ancient to break away from the traditional pin placements.

57.   As Woods spoke, you could almost sense tournament officials making plans for even more difficult pin placements along the undulating Masters greens.

58.   Difficult pin placements and firm greens combined to create some of the most difficult playing conditions players had seen.

59.   Els complained that the pin placements were too hard on the players.

60.   They could not get any more severe on pin placements than they did the first day.