1.   At least two other top players on the tour have privately grumbled about the way tour officials delicately step around the absences of Venus and Serena Williams.

2.   At this stage, tour officials said, any discussion about this being a career-threatening injury is premature and unwarranted.

3.   A tour official asked if she wanted to end the interview.

4.   Brigman never blamed his playing partner at Doral, Jay Hobby, or any of the tour officials for his mistake.

5.   But now she was zipping through her thoughts on the decision that tour officials made to move the season-ending tournament to Munich, Germany, next year.

6.   Gusman just shrugs when told about these and other comments from American tour officials.

7.   Hingis has missed two consecutive events because of a foot injury, but tour officials said Hingis had not described it as career threatening to anyone on staff.

8.   Hopes for landing a Senior Tour Championship remain viable, but tour officials need to find someone to run the event.

9.   Nick Price withdrew Thursday shortly after the first round washed out around noon, advising tour officials of a neck problem.

10.   Powell said later he was unaware that he was in a lateral-hazard area until a tour official arrived and slapped him with a two-stroke penalty.