Els, Mickelson, Love, Curtis and Goosen Emerge for Battle at Bay Hill

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Published: March 27, 2010

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Five major championship winners are in the running at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Invitational.

 

That shows the strength of the field, as well as the quality of the course, which has been redone to rave reviews. 

 

Gone is the high rough that demanded a hack out or the axe club.

 

It has been replaced with "Augusta like" chipping areas around the greens which bring touch, creativity and decision—making into the game.

 

Introduced are new white sand, eyeball—catching bunkers. As Fred Funk, playing in the last year of his Players exemption said to Arnold Palmer after the first round, “I got out there and it was so white I had to put on my sunglasses.”  Palmer laughed.

 

The greens have also been redone and apparently, they agree with Phil Mickelson.

 

“It was my best putting round of the year,” he said, despite a typical Phil The Thrill round. “Penalty shots, hole—outs, birdies; it was up—and—down,” Mickelson explained with a Cheshire Cat smile that said I got away with a few.  

 

He feels he is finally on track with his putting, after more time with former PGA Championship winner and 1991 Ryder Cup captain, Dave Stockton. 

 

“I feel like I don't have to attack every pin, and I can still make birdies,” Mickelson added.  “I can just make those 15 to 20—footers.”

 

The penalty he referred to was stoke and distance at the par five sixth hole, which circles around a lake.

 

“I had to go back to the tee,” he said.  Or, as Shotlink described it: “288 yards to water.” Two holes later, at the par four eighth, Mc...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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