Following Geoff Ogilvy's opening round of 6-under 67 at Kapalua, the first round leader talked with the media about his successes.  Interesting, too, was the comparison that he made between the setup at Kapalua and what he will experience next week at the Sony Open.

I stringed together his answer to a couple of consecutive questions to get this.

[Kapalua] is a perfect place to start. I think the fairways, it's quite easy to hit a lot of fairways.  Next week is a really awkward start, because you feel sorry for those guys, because if that's where you start -- I've started there five or six times. It's really hard to hit fairways there. You're hitting it out of the rough for a week, and it's just not that much fun. 

Whenever I come to Sony after here, you're hitting it off the fairway and you're used to playing in the wind. It's a great place to start, I think. It's so good and different everything else we play. After Florida, you probably play the same golf course 120 times in a row. But to play such an extremely different setup, it's a cool place to start.

[After playing Kapalua, the fairways at Waialae] look really small. But you've played in the wind for the week and you've knocked off the rust and you've played on bermuda for a week, and you've probably got confidence because you've hit a lot of fairways and greens. Even if you don't hit it well here, you hit a lot of fairways and greens, and you slash it down to 17 and 18, and have a bit of fun. Whenever I've gone to Sony after this, I've done okay, but if I go to Sony without this, I miss the cut. It's easier after you've been here, for sure.

Ogilvy is one of my favorite players because he really seems to take interest in course setups, seeking variety, and promoting tournaments that have some unique nature to them.  He's completely right about the comparison between Kapalua and the rest of the season.  Perhaps we need more weeks like Kapalua - wide fairways and big greens?