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Golf PGSF FedEx Cup Week 9 The Arnold Palmer Invitational

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  • Bryson DeChambeau is the defending champion at Bay Hill. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
    Bryson DeChambeau is the defending champion at Bay Hill. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau plans to return to Bay Hill after navigating a few injuries through the early part of the 2021-22 season.
He’s joined by a field full of the game’s biggest names include two-time FedExCup champion and past Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Rory McIlroy and world No. 1 Jon Rahm.
FIELD NOTES: Bryson is back. DeChambeau, who won the 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, has been battling some injuries early this season. His agent, Brett Falkoff, told PGATOUR.COM that DeChambeau will “continue to rehab” and is hopeful to compete … Recent winners who are returning to Bay Hill include Rory McIlroy – a winner already this season – along with Tyrrell Hatton and Marc Leishman … World No. 1 Jon Rahm is set to tee it up … FedExCup leader Hideki Matsuyama is returning to action as he inches closer to his Masters title defense … Scottie Scheffler is back in action. He earned his maiden PGA TOUR victory at the WM Phoenix Open and backed that up with a T7 at The Genesis Invitational … Lee Westwood returns to Bay Hill after a runner-up last season … 2021 U.S. Amateur winner James Piot is in the field. It’s the PGA TOUR debut for the Michigan State product … Will Zalatoris will forever be connected to Arnold Palmer. Zalatoris, who is teeing it up at Bay Hill, played at Wake Forest on the Arnold Palmer Scholarship and won the 2020-21 Arnold Palmer Award as TOUR Rookie of the Year … Sponsor exemptions include a wide mix of TOUR veterans and fresh faces. Former FedExCup winner Brandt Snedeker in addition to major winners Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson, Padraig Harrington and Danny Willett are all in the field. They’re joined by Nicolai Hojgaard – who made his TOUR debut at The Honda Classic – John Pak, Davis Thompson and Min Woo Lee, among others … Texas A&M’s Sam Bennett earned his way into the field as the Arnold Palmer Cup representative from 2021.
FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 550 FedExCup points.
COURSE: Bay Hill Club & Lodge, par 72, 7,466 yards. The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard has been held at Bay Hill every year on TOUR since 1979. The mostly flat layout challenges the TOUR’s best mostly with water that comes into play on many of the holes. The last two years have seen some blustery conditions as well, resulting in tough scoring conditions. For example, Tyrrell Hatton’s winning total of 4-under 284 was the highest since 1983, while last season’s final-round scoring average of 75.49 was the highest in a final round since 1980.
STORYLINES: The biggest question heading into Bay Hill is how Bryson DeChambeau will fare, as he recovers from a pair of injuries – to his left hip and left hand. This marks his first PGA TOUR start since missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open. He was scheduled to play The Genesis Invitational, as well, but withdrew before the event began … DeChambeau was the first American winner at Bay Hill since Matt Every six years prior. International players had won in five consecutive tournament iterations … The winner at Bay Hill earns a three-year PGA TOUR exemption instead of the usual two due to the event’s elevated status … There is plenty of firepower set to tee it up at Bay Hill, with five of the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking in the field. That number includes world No. 1 Jon Rahm, who announced on social media last week that he and wife Kelley are expecting their second child. Rahm finished T21 at The Genesis Invitational, his first finish outside the top-15 in the 2022 calendar year.
72-HOLE RECORD: 264, Payne Stewart (1987).
18-HOLE RECORD: 62, Andy Bean (Round 2, 1981), Greg Norman (Round 2, 1984), Adam Scott (Round 1, 2014).
LAST TIME: Sunday at Bay Hill proved to be one of the toughest days on record, so it should have been no surprise that Bryson DeChambeau overpowered the field the best. DeChambeau shot a final-round 71 a year ago, matching the low score of the day. No one broke 70 on Sunday at Bay Hill for the first time since 1980. It was DeChambeau’s second win of the season. He opened with a bogey, but he made birdie on Nos. 4 and 6 – after a 377-yard drive over water on a memorably aggressive line at the par-5 sixth – and stayed steady the rest of the way home. Lee Westwood shot a 1-over 73 and finished runner-up. He and DeChambeau were never separated by more than one shot over the final 15 holes. Corey Conners finished in third alone, while Andrew Putnam, Richy Werenski and Jordan Spieth rounded out the top five.

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Congrats again to last weeks winn er @NoleLizards

@FSUdawg holds onto the overall lead but the top of the leaderboard is getting crowded with @seminoleed only 19 points back

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Good luck to everyone this week
 
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"@FSUdawg holds onto the overall lead but the top of the leaderboard is getting crowded with @seminoleed only 19 points back..."

There's Ed at the 1/4 mile turn, with FSUdawg in this sights...kinda like Secretariat staring right at SHAM, at Belmont, before it all came down...;)

I know, I know, its still early in the PGSF season, and there's A-L-O-T of golf to play, but tight races are better than watching Tiger decimate the field year after year, when I was in grammar school...oh wait, maybe that was Jack, I think. When was Nixon in office again...?
 


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I think this is a horses for courses week. It's a course for those that draw the ball. Or hit it straight.
So I'm keeping my chin up. A great week to remember " The King'. He made it cool to play golf. He had swagger before anyone knew there was such a thing.

This week: 1. Rory McIlroy
2. Vicktor Hovland
3. H. Matsuyama
4. The obligatory John Rahm pick. ( Though I would be shocked if he won. But you can't pass on #1.)
Reporting from Chile.

Kenny.
 
"After two months, you're only 19 points behind. You ever been able to do that, you worthless pile of crap?" These were the words of TGW this morning; I would've gotten into it with him, but his breath told me he's an alky and they do strange things sometimes, so I just glared, snarled, and said "Whatta ya got for me this week, you drunken slob."

And he got:

VIktor Hovland
Rory McIlroy
Jon Rahm
Scottie Scheffler

I'm changing my door locks now.
 
NiA - did Jason Day withdraw from the API? I didn't see him on the list and I didn't pick him this week, but though I'd read something this afternoon that he withdrew...replaced by David Lipsky. The link I saw was on yahoo-golf earlier today:

 
NiA - did Jason Day withdraw from the API? I didn't see him on the list and I didn't pick him this week, but though I'd read something this afternoon that he withdrew...replaced by David Lipsky. The link I saw was on yahoo-golf earlier today:


Yes sir

 
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Rory sure is playing great, I hope he keeps playing well and is careful and doesn't step in a divot or step wrong off a curb and twist an ankle or pull a muscle, that would be terrible
Almost everyone picked him!!!
 
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Frigging Im shoots 68 today. When I picked him last week, he was at 68 with 5 holes to go.

Hi Ho, Billy Ho
No one picks him, dontcha know;
He's a gator crank, his game doth stank
He can chomp on my (insert appropriate anatomic part) some mo'...

Hi Ho, Billy Ho.

Wise choice, my man, wise choice...
None of you gader lovers picked him this week, and of course he's tearing it up day one.
 
NiA - did Jason Day withdraw from the API? I didn't see him on the list and I didn't pick him this week, but though I'd read something this afternoon that he withdrew...replaced by David Lipsky. The link I saw was on yahoo-golf earlier today:


I saw a little while ago that his mom passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer.
 
I am hearing all the guys listed below were exposed to the latest strand of COVID, the NIA bad karma strand. This strand is similar to COVID, but some unique symptoms include the yips, sore lower back, tennis elbow, and the most common side effect, escort put a mickey in my drink, stole my wallet I am embarrassed so I missed my tee time.

Hope all these guys are ok, well except that damn gate

1. Viktor Hovland (-9)
T2. @TyrrellHatton(-7)
T2. @TalorGooch
T2. @McIlroyRory
5. @BillyHo_Golf (-6)
 
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