I'm cold. The setting is the large, draughty media marquee at The Hills golf course and my hands are numb on the keyboard.
It was 30degC at the final day of the New Zealand PGA at Clearwater yesterday and today feels about 6degC.
The tussocks are bending in the stiff southerly and only a few hardy players are out having practice rounds.
Around The Hills, there is plenty of activity. My colleague Matt Haggart managed to score a golf cart and took me on a whizz around the course to get my bearings.
It's certainly an extraordinary place, though maybe not quite so jaw-droppingly beautiful as everyone has told me over the last 15 months.
It's hillier than any other course I've seen and parts of it are almost, well, agricultural.
The tents are going up on Mainstreet, there are groundsmen everywhere and the piles of scaffolding suggest television cameras are on their way.
There's a buzz already and we're still three days out from the tournament proper.
I caught the red-eye flight from Christchurch and shared a plane with plenty of golfers, including New Zealand left-hander Gareth Paddison and a young Aussie bloke called Michael Moore whom I spoke to while waiting for our baggage.
Paddison could be one to watch. He looked in seriously good form at Clearwater before missing crucial putts, and he did well the last time the Open was held at The Hills.
The New Zealand PGA was a great experience. I watched Danny Lee for a bit on the final day because that's what everyone else was doing.
But the best part was standing on the 18th as Steve Alker came home and sank the winning putt.
He spoke to the group of about 10 media half an hour later and seemed like a genuinely nice guy.
Everyone on the golf round says golfers are the best sportsmen to interview because they speak eloquently and are always happy to talk.
I'm not quite convinced. The first two players I interviewed one-one-on-one yesterday seemed a little disinterested. One even asked why
I wanted to interview him.
There's already been a Danny Lee sighting in Arrowtown and no doubt he will again be the centre of attention on Thursday.
I wonder if any of the other Kiwis - the guys like Alker and David Smail - feel some small resentment at being ignored while Lee gets all the attention.
They seem like two classy guys, so they're probably not bothered.
Anyway, you can't tell golf fans to suppress Lee-mania.
At 18, with a professional tournament win already under his belt, he is a kid in a hurry.
The talk is he will be paired with the great Sir Bob Charles for the opening round. That will be some sight.