Here's the part of the Masters that's hard to pick up on TV: The greens are fast. No, I mean fast. Maurice Greene could run 100 meters in about 4.9 seconds on these greens. Randy Johnson could throw a 122-mph fastball on these greens. You could cook a microwave pizza in about 9 seconds on these greens.

If you ran an Indy Car on these greens, you might go back in time.

I'm telling you, these are fast greens.

Fast greens, of course, are the signature of the Masters. Even when it rains - and that's pretty much all it has done here this week - the greens somehow stay faster than a John Grisham novel. The greens are some combination of bent-grass and rocket fuel. When players putt here, you can see little Wile E. Coyotes chasing them.

- Joe Posnanski, Kansas City Star

Golf has more rules than the Lions have excuses. If you sneeze during your playing partner's backswing, there's probably some recourse within the United States Golf Association Decisions of the Rules of Golf that stops just short of taking away the offending party's breathing privileges.

This is the only sport where self-policing is the norm. If they're hesitant, then others are heartily encouraged to step forward in protecting the sanctity of the game - i.e., ratting somebody out.

Vijay Singh unleashed tournament officials on Phil Mickelson's spikes Friday. "On the 13th hole," Mickelson said Friday, "two officials approached me at two different times. They were sent by Vijay to check my spikes because he felt they were unduly damaging the greens."

Meeee-oowww.

- Drew Sharp, Detroit Free Press

Kids in every sport talk more than they used to.

It may sound jarring within the genteel confines of a golf course as opposed to, say, a basketball court - but get used to it. Even at the Masters, they're going to have their say.

Exhibit 'A' this year is 22-year-old Ryan Moore. Until Tiger Woods came along, Moore and his predecessors, at least the cockiest among them, were counseled to say nothing more boastful than, "I'll let my clubs do the talking."

If that was still the case, Moore's 5-iron would be Don King. ...

Last month, Moore told Golf Digest, "I really believe I can win the Masters," and quickly made clear he didn't mean "a" Masters someday, but this Masters.

"I don't see why not," he said.

- Jim Litke, Associated Press