Arnold Palmer Invitational R3

March 04-07
Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida
$9,300,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

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Lee Westwood closed his round with an eagle-par-birdie combination courtesy of two 30-foot putts for a 7-under 65 to take a one-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Saturday.

“It’s nice to still be playing in these tournaments,” said Westwood. “You’ve got to be top 50 in the world and if you would have said to me 20 years ago will you still be top 50 in the world at 48 I might have been slightly skeptical. And it just shows that I’m still capable of playing well in these tournaments with all the good young players around me and obviously contending, because that’s what I’m doing this week.”

Westwood fired eight birdies, his eagle at the par-5 16th as well as three bogeys to post his lowest score at Bay Hill since he first played in the event in 1998.

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Westwood hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since 2010 but has won five times on the European Tour since turning 40, won the Race to Dubai last year and is currently 39th in the World Rankings.

“I haven’t lost any of my length and I haven’t lost any of my enthusiasm to go and work in the gym. My nerves are still intact, I still get into contention and enjoy it rather than kind of back off.”

Overnight leader Corey Conners made three bogeys and two bogeys to close with a 71 and slid back into second place alongside Bryson DeChambeau.

DeChambeau’s much anticipated attempt to drive the par-5 sixth hole finally happened after being postponed in the first rounds due to adverse wind.

As he approached the hole the wind still wasn’t quite right but DeChambeau decided to try it anyway.

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“For the most part, that’s a shot that I know I can do, and I was able to accomplish that. I would have done it without the fans, but the fans definitely edged me on a little bit and it was fun to give them what they wanted.”

His tee shot sent his ball flying 370 yards straight over the water and landed just 70 yards from the tee.

“Oh, man, I felt like a kid again, for sure,” said DeChambeau. “It was exciting. Especially when you pull it off and you know, it was almost like winning a tournament. I don’t know. It’s kind of the feeling I had, It was like, ‘Oh, I did it.’ I got the same chills and feeling when I saw it clear and there was no splash. It was like, ‘Yes! I gave the fans what they wanted!”

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Jordan Spieth continues his bid to return to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2017 and opened with a birdie and a hole-in-one at the par-3 2nd. A second birdie at the par-3 7th gave him the lead and he made the turn in 32. He made two more birdies on the back nine before bogeying the 14th and 17th to close with a 68, two shots behind Westwood, alongside Keegan Bradley whose 64 was the low score of the week.

Spieth’s playing partner, Justin Rose, woke up with back issues and chose to withdraw after finding the water three times and making a quintuple-bogey 9 at the par-4 3rd, leaving Spieth to finish his round on his own.

“It’s been an exciting week, playing back in front of fans and, obviously, quite a visible WD playing with Jordan out there. Just kind of woke up with a bit in a sort of spasmed lower back today and tried to kind of get through it. My warm-up was hard work, and I just couldn’t stay down in a shot. I missed basically every golf shot left to start the day. Even my little chip into the fourth hole out of the rough from the lefthand side was creating pain.”

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“And with the eye on next week and what have you, I just felt like it was a prudent call, just to call it at that point. But I felt bad with Jordan having momentum to sort of change, change the vibe of the group.”

Rory McIlroy’s two birdies and two bogeys for a 72 place him at 7-under in a tie for seventh alongside Doug Ghim, Jazz Janewattananond and Richy Werenski.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Lee Westwood	-11	69	71	65	205
T2	Corey Conners	-10	66	69	71	206
T2	Bryson DeChambeau	-10	67	71	68	206
T4	Keegan Bradley	-9	69	74	64	207
T4	Jordan Spieth	-9	70	69	68	207
6	Tommy Fleetwood	-8	70	70	68	208
T7	Doug Ghim	-7	71	73	65	209
T7	Jazz Janewattananond	-7	75	65	69	209
T7	Rory McIlroy	-7	66	71	72	209
T7	Richy Werenski	-7	71	69	69	209
T11	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-6	70	70	70	210
T11	Jason Day	-6	70	72	68	210
T11	Lanto Griffin	-6	69	68	73	210
T11	Tyrrell Hatton	-6	77	67	66	210
T11	Charley Hoffman	-6	71	72	67	210
T11	Chris Kirk	-6	71	70	69	210
T11	Jason Kokrak	-6	68	73	69	210
T18	Paul Casey	-5	70	69	72	211
T18	Matthew Fitzpatrick	-5	69	71	71	211
T18	Sungjae Im	-5	69	70	72	211
T18	Andrew Putnam	-5	70	72	69	211
T22	Branden Grace	-4	74	71	67	212
T22	Max Homa	-4	70	70	72	212
T22	Kevin Kisner	-4	73	72	67	212
T22	Martin Laird	-4	69	67	76	212
T22	Denny McCarthy	-4	72	73	67	212
T22	Kristoffer Ventura	-4	75	70	67	212
T22	Danny Willett	-4	73	71	68	212
T29	Emiliano Grillo	-3	71	74	68	213
T29	Padraig Harrington	-3	70	74	69	213
T29	Keith Mitchell	-3	73	71	69	213
T29	Alex Noren	-3	72	71	70	213
T29	Ian Poulter	-3	70	73	70	213
T29	Will Zalatoris	-3	73	68	72	213
T35	Harris English	-2	73	70	71	214
T35	Viktor Hovland	-2	69	68	77	214
T35	Hideki Matsuyama	-2	75	70	69	214
T35	Patrick Rodgers	-2	73	72	69	214
T35	Brendan Steele	-2	71	72	71	214
T35	Cameron Tringale	-2	70	75	69	214
T35	Harold Varner III	-2	72	72	70	214
T42	Jason Dufner	-1	74	70	71	215
T42	Tyler Duncan	-1	72	72	71	215
T42	Bo Hoag	-1	74	70	71	215
T42	Danny Lee	-1	73	71	71	215
T42	Maverick McNealy	-1	71	72	72	215
T42	Brendon Todd	-1	74	70	71	215
T42	Matt Wallace	-1	70	73	72	215
T42	Bernd Wiesberger	-1	72	71	72	215
T50	William Gordon	E	72	72	72	216
T50	Charles Howell III	E	74	72	70	216
T50	Zach Johnson	E	74	70	72	216
T50	Sebastián Muñoz	E	68	76	72	216
T50	Pat Perez	E	75	71	70	216
T55	Byeong Hun An	1	68	74	75	217
T55	Talor Gooch	1	73	73	71	217
T55	Mark Hubbard	1	71	74	72	217
T55	John Huh	1	74	71	72	217
T55	Chez Reavie	1	74	70	73	217
T55	Steve Stricker	1	72	71	74	217
T61	Lucas Glover	2	72	74	72	218
T61	Patton Kizzire	2	76	69	73	218
T61	Russell Knox	2	74	71	73	218
T61	Luke List	2	71	72	75	218
T61	Robert MacIntyre	2	71	71	76	218
T61	Kevin Na	2	71	71	76	218
T61	Erik van Rooyen	2	72	74	72	218
68	Henrik Norlander	4	71	75	74	220
T69	Victor Perez	5	69	74	78	221
T69	Brandt Snedeker	5	75	71	75	221
T71	Rickie Fowler	6	76	70	76	222
T71	Doc Redman	6	73	73	76	222
CUT	Tom Hoge	3	74	73		147
CUT	Patrick Reed	3	73	74		147
CUT	Cameron Davis	4	76	72		148
CUT	Matt Jones	4	76	72		148
CUT	Peter Malnati	4	70	78		148
CUT	Matthew NeSmith	4	72	76		148
CUT	Cheng Tsung Pan	4	74	74		148
CUT	Cameron Percy	4	72	76		148
CUT	Rory Sabbatini	4	70	78		148
CUT	Henrik Stenson	4	73	75		148
CUT	Robert Streb	4	78	70		148
CUT	Hudson Swafford	4	78	70		148
CUT	Nick Taylor	4	73	75		148
CUT	Sam Burns	5	77	72		149
CUT	Dylan Frittelli	5	79	70		149
CUT	Jim Herman	5	75	74		149
CUT	Billy Horschel	5	74	75		149
CUT	Sung Kang	5	72	77		149
CUT	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	5	71	78		149
CUT	Marc Leishman	5	74	75		149
CUT	Shane Lowry	5	75	74		149
CUT	Graeme McDowell	5	79	70		149
CUT	Aaron Wise	5	75	74		149
CUT	Wyndham Clark	6	74	76		150
CUT	Joel Dahmen	6	74	76		150
CUT	Paul Goydos	6	73	77		150
CUT	Anirban Lahiri	6	72	78		150
CUT	J.T. Poston	6	76	74		150
CUT	Charl Schwartzel	6	76	74		150
CUT	Cameron Champ	7	77	74		151
CUT	Adam Hadwin	7	79	72		151
CUT	Adam Long	7	70	81		151
CUT	Sepp Straka	7	73	78		151
CUT	Brian Stuard	7	74	77		151
CUT	Camilo Villegas	7	81	70		151
CUT	Austin Cook	8	75	77		152
CUT	Matt Every	8	76	76		152
CUT	Brian Gay	8	78	74		152
CUT	Tim Herron	8	73	79		152
CUT	Kramer Hickok	8	76	76		152
CUT	Francesco Molinari	8	78	74		152
CUT	Matthias Schmid (a)	8	76	76		152
CUT	Kyle Stanley	8	76	76		152
CUT	John Augenstein	9	83	70		153
CUT	Tyler McCumber	10	79	75		154
CUT	Rod Perry	10	78	76		154
CUT	Robby Shelton	12	76	80		156
CUT	Kamaiu Johnson	19	84	79		163
WD	Justin Rose	E
WD	Si Woo Kim	E
DQ	Robert Gamez	E