In Florida, where golf is advertised as pleasurable, in Bermuda and with skins scorched by the sun, a British spring day was unleashed, with harsh winds, over 35 km / h per hour at times, and criss-crosses that complicated the flight of the ball and its landing on some very unreceptive greens. already for Saturday, with brown grass and peeled like the crown of a marine.
Jon Rahm, a player who understands fable these days, he did not offer his super version and with 74 strokes two over par, he was removed from the fight for the title of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He is eighteenth. Seven strokes behind Talor Gooch (72 strokes), winner of the RSM Classic last November, his first victory on the PGA Tour, and Billy Horschel (71), the distance seems impossible to overcome on Sunday. Especially because the one from Barrika continues to miss several shots on the green and because of how the course is prepared.
The world number 1 only made a birdie all day, on the 16th hole, a par 5, and putting a good putt of four meters, the longest he holed on the day of the movement. On the other hand, he suffered in the par 3s, two bogeys, and in the conditions that Bay Hill was in, it was difficult to score. Scottie Scheffler did it, in a state of grace – he won in Phoenix -, and Chris Kirk, with invaluable 68-hit cards, which allows them to dream of the tournament.
On the other hand, Tyrrell Hatton had a terrible time, a specialist between bursts, who finished with 78 shots, Rory McIlroy (76) and Viktor Hovland (75), the Norwegian who threatens to become the second youngest player in history to reach world number 2 at 24 and a half , and that he was trapped in the last 9 holes that he dispatched at four over par. The birdie from the bunker on hole 6 eased the day somewhat.
Sergio García (75), meanwhile, was a slide of emotions. The double bogey after falling into the lake on the 13th hole was followed by an eagle on the par 5 of the 16th hole, after a second anthological shot that put it three meters from the hole. When it seemed raised to the crest, he closed the day of the movement with two bogeys.
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