Day led from start to finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
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Mickelson missed the cut for the fourth consecutive year.
He would not make that mistake, however, handling the unsafe 17th and 18th beautifully and had the good fortune after finding the green at the last to enjoy the moment as he embraced the love of the huge crowd. I mean, that would be the worst thing ever. “Yeah, that putt was probably the most crucial putt of this tournament for me”. There was lots of grumbling after the completion of play and the tour officials got an earful from numerous golfers.
“(The buttons) are something as a Japanese citizen to show my support.
Jason Day claimed a four-stroke victory at The Players Championship on Sunday.
“I don’t think there’s much of a connection to the Masters”.
He began the day with a four-shot cushion, and never led by less than two strokes despite some wayward tee shots at Ponte Vedra Beach. Lowry and Rory McIlroy set a record with a 29 on the back nine.
Even with his comfortable lead the TPC Sawgrass is a layout which perhaps more than any other on the PGA Tour highlights the saying that it is never over until it is over. These days, he’s clearly the world No. 1.
“I’ve got no stress in my life”, Day said after his four-shot victory, his seventh in the last 10 months. “It’s just 10. I want more than 10. And they just, you know, sped up on us”.
It’s been a sleepy underwhelming stretch on Tour since the Masters, but this is a final round worth watching on a day that doesn’t have much in the way of #sports. It’s true (but those comments) gave me a bit of extra motivation, seeing that on TV, being the number one player on the world and not being one of the guys to look at to win the tournament. The sun baked out the course. Such as the 4-putt at the sixth green on Saturday. He made another double bogey two holes later.
The 28-year-old Australian took a top prize of $1.89 million (1.67 million euros) at the $10.5 million event, collecting his seventh win in 17 starts – his fifth in a row when leading after 54 holes.
The PGA Tour now moves to Dallas for the AT&T Byron Nelson Championship.
“It just flat-out sucks losing”, Day said. Rounds were taking almost six hours to finish. “They make the course almost unplayable”. On the streaming side, you’ll be able to watch a simulcast of all the TV coverage via their LiveExtra service.
“I won’t stop until it’s done, and I can rest after that”.
Ken Duke – in the round of a lifetime – made six birdies over his last seven holes for a 65, which was more than 10 shots better than the average score.
Brady Schnell was second after a 72.
That they did. The field three-putted 149 times in the third round-which is, well, insane. But a 10-foot putt felt like it was 60 feet away just to try and get it that close. There was rare a lag putt.
“That week, something changed, ” Day said.
There was still the traditional trouble at the Stadium Course.
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Scotland’s Russell Knox had a disastrous nine on the par-three 17th, sending three balls into the water surrounding the famous island green. A birdie on 11 was the only solace of a testing round, closing out the back nine with another two bogeys.
