Carlsbad, Calif. ? Two-time Match Play defending champion Tiger Woods won his 13th consecutive match, but not without wiping mud from his eyes after hitting out of the mucky fairways Thursday at the wetlands known as La Costa Resort.

Nine of the top 10 seeds advanced to the second round. Otherwise, it was a good walk soiled.

“Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting,” Robert Allenby said after an easy victory over British Open champion Todd Hamilton. “If this was a normal tournament, we wouldn’t be playing. You can’t even walk down the fairways.”

The fairways were so saturated that Davis Love III spent 10 minutes looking for a dry patch of grass. Woods said he would have been better off putting on a waffle iron.

“At least a waffle iron is the same height,” he said after coasting to a 4-and-3 victory over Nick Price. “You can hit good putts and look great, and hit good putts and look like an absolute idiot.”

Tees were moved up to avoid landing areas that resembled swamps, the biggest change coming at the 467-yard ninth.

The second-longest par 4 at La Costa was converted into the shortest par 3, playing at 162 yards because there wasn’t a dry spot in the fairway.

“The course was really unplayable,” Stuart Appleby said after beating Joakim Haeggman in one of only two matches that required extra holes.

Vijay Singh, the No. 1 seed who has never advanced beyond the second round, built a quick lead against Shingo Katayama and sailed to a 4-and-3 victory. Phil Mickelson made two birdies to start the second nine and led by as many as four holes before dispatching short-hitting Loren Roberts, 3 and 1. Retief Goosen went the distance with Stephen Leaney, winning 1 up.