have been all over that area, including beaufort and THE HOUSE, over the years, a special setting. to me the only thing that should have been eliminated in SOUTH OF BROAD, not that i pretend to fine-tune mr. conroy, is the twins' father character. feel he could have made them just as dysfunctional without that implausible piece running throughout the otherwise wonderful story line. just reading some of my favorite authors' ( pat conroy, nelson demille, for example) own words, they all agree that ending books is their most difficult task. there are a couple of bookstores in old charleston that pat hangs around sometimes as well and have seen him more than once. getting back to the PGA, jim nantz said yesterday that a big alligator came out of a lagoon and ate their microphone on the 17th tee. nick faldo was saying that when all of the players departed the ocean course in 1991 after the ryder cup, they all said that the course was not playable with a scorecard in their hands, in other words match play, OK but stroke play, never happen. the course has been altered a ton since that time and is still a good test but not impossible as it was first designed by dye. friday's second round is the highest overall score, 77+ ever in the event, the winds, they were a blowing that day.