They should slow up a little bit by this afternoon, but there's still quite a bit of moisture in them so I think that the uphill, into-the-grain putts are really slow and then obviously the downhill, down-grain putts are really quick".
The worst nightmares for players were putts that went downhill, downwind and down grain.
The men's downhill - straight down, no braking, no turns - is the fastest and most exciting event, in which skiers clock speeds of up to 90 mph.
Kostelic trailed Beat Feuz of Switzerland by 2.50 seconds after the downhill but put down a superb slalom run on the Verte course at Chamonix, France.
Lindsey Vonn, the defending overall and downhill champion, put down a blistering second run in a women's World Cup slalom in Maribor, Slovenia, but it was not enough to catch Maria Riesch of Germany, who won her fourth straight slalom.
Just like an electric car, the Solowheel generates energy going downhill or slowing down.
On the bike you feel like a downhill skier - head down, hands and elbows tucked in, the ground fizzing past beneath your nose.
One of AT&T's projects under development is a pair of Internet-accessible ski goggles with a built-in wireless phone that would allow skiers to hold conversations, transmit a video of their downhill descent or pull down a course map projected onto a visor.
At first, there are sarcastically upbeat horns and swaggering guitars; later, as things spiral downhill, it is pared down to unadorned guitar or piano and a voice that, in Mr. Reed's deceptive deadpan, sounds as if it's choking back all its rage and sorrow.
And depending on the suffix, speakers can indicate whether a noun is toward or away from them; uphill or downhill; or upstream or down stream.
