PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Invitational leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/arnold-palmer-invitational-presented-by-mastercard/leaderboard.html
The players are all paying tribute to Arnie's grounds keeping staff who have Bay Hill in the best shape they have ever seen.
"The course is so pure, conditions are really good. Someone who is hitting it good is going to make a lot of putts because the greens are rolling pure. If you can get it inside 20 feet you’re feeling like you’re going to make everything" said Adam Scott who continued his fantastic form with -5,67 in the early morning, good enough to share the clubhouse lead for much of round one at this Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Ideal course, benign weather means low scoring and you have to go down to 82nd place to find any one over par as a result.
But it was another Aussie who stole the show on another beautiful day in north east Florida. Jason Day hasn't shown the kind of form yet this year that had him vying for Player of the Year honours in 2015 and he doesn't have a great record at Bay Hill, so after driving it out of bounds at the 9th it looked like it would be more of the same.
However his putter got hot and he played the last seven holes in -5 aided by an eagle 3 at the 16th and a string of 7 one putt greens, to finish the day at -6 66, atop a very crowded leaderboard.
Four players, Sweden's Henrik Stenson, Aussie Marc Leishman, Brendan Steele and Troy Merritt are with Scott at -5 67 and at -4 68 are 10 players including other international stars like Justin Rose, who made two eagles and Paul Casey from England, Francesco Molinari from Italy and Emiliano Grillo from the Argentine.
Rory McIlroy had 2 doubles and made 2 par saves after hitting into the ever present water for a +3 75 which could have been much worse. He is T107 and spent a late evening on the range, so let's see if he can make the cut come Friday evening.
Canadians : Adam Hadwin T12 -3 69, David Hearn T50 -1 71.
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