Billy Horschel plays from Pinestrel during the first round of Arnold Palmer Invitational of Thursday.
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To quote the Golf Analytics website, TideThursday simply “wasn’t a great day to spend an early time” in PGA Tour.
One may have been able to assume that the broadcast, which indicated that flags bent by evil winds staying in Florida – and much of the eastern coast. Bay Hill was even more a torture room than already for the good. They weren’t alone. Epson Tour’s event, holding for several hours north of Orlando in Atlantic Beach, presented 37 women who failed to break 80.
But in Orlando, the first 16 players who ended their first round on average a score of 77.4 in Arnold Palmer Invitationalfive quiet (or worse). But the groups that started just hours later saw Era eased a little in the afternoon. And the last groups? They had it extremely easier. The last 12 players were dealt with with only 73, a rhythm with 4 strokes in the waves of weather-big as you will see throughout the season.
Unfortunately, when players do not score well, they are often not inclined to talk to the media afterwards, so few players were interviewed by the morning wave. Scottie Scheffler was besieged at 1-Nine-PARE 71, and was asked which element of Thursday was the most challenging. Scottie Scheffler chose not to choose.
“You choose your poison here,” said World No. 1. ‘You can probably create a story with whatever it may be. The greens are difficult, the rough is high and the wind is raised. “
Ask boys in the afternoon, and they were happy to spend the morning watching on TV. Around 4pm, conditions really began to calm down, allowing Wynham Clark, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Shane Lowry All to charge the late rounds in the 1960s. Along with Rory Mcilroy and Justin Rose, who both shot the 2nd 70’s, the afternoon crowd constitutes a predominant part of the early leader. Just don’t tell them it was only regarding the conditions they faced.
Bezuidenhout: “It died only as the last two and the last half, three holes. We also played most of the round in difficult conditions. I’m not sure how the wind was this morning, but in fact it looked very difficult there if you look at the result and things. But this golf course will always play tightly, windless.”
Clark: “I would say for sure like the last five holes that were a little calm. But then it was difficult to find where the wind was, so this is a challenge in itself. I would say the greens were really ripe.
