Arnold Palmer Invitational

We will be remembering our hero at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week. This year’s event is the first without Mr. Arnold Palmer, who died last September at the age of 87. Henrik Stenson said, “It’s a very different week with Arnold not being here with us. He’s meant so much to the game of golf.”

Par-72 – 7,419 yards Bay Hill Club

120 players, after 36 holes top 70/ ties move on

$8.7 million purse

Henrik Stenson has been a persistent contender at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in recent years, finishing T-8 or better each time since 2013. He’ll play the first two rounds alongside Hideki Matsuyama, who sits just one spot ahead of him in the latest world rankings. Justin Rose has three top-10 finishes at Bay Hill since 2011, including a runner-up in 2013.

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Winning Golfer Picked: 5

Golfers Finishing in Top 10: 27

Golfers Making Cut: 76%

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And as the great Arnold Palmer once said, “I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s game: it’s called an eraser.”

Good luck this week!

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How many golfers are playing sick this week in Mexico?  Did you have Henrik Stenson in your lineup? I sure did! And, while he made a valiant effort to play he could only get through 11 holes of his opening round before withdrawing because of a stomach virus. Rory McIlroy, also reported to be under the weather, gutted out a 3-under 68 Thursday at Chapultepec Golf Club.

ESPN’s Bob Harig tweeted Thursday that McIlroy was also battling a stomach bug, saying that McIlroy said he was “praying to the porcelain God” Thursday morning. The Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis said that McIlroy had dinner Wednesday night with his parents and fiancee Erica Stoll, and also “played conservative” because of his stomach ache.

Even with the sickness, McIlroy looked good in his first competitive round in six weeks. The 27-year-old McIlroy, who had been recovering from a stress fracture in one of his ribs, made two birdies, a bogey, and a big 30-footer for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole.

McIlroy, ranked third in the world, can overtake the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking if he wins this week and current No. 1 Dustin Johnson finishes T-4 or worse.

Stenson’s withdrawal snaps a streak of six straight top-10 finishes worldwide. He was 3 over through 11 holes when he called it quits for the tournament.

Zach Johnson threw up a huge number at 4 over par; however, don’t be surprised to see the Iowa native pull it together today to fire a low round under par.

The Golf Channel reports that Mickelson’s best friend and caddy Jim MacKay, aka “Bones”, may not be able to continue on his bag today. If Bones can’t gut it out, Phil’s brother Tim Mickelson, former Arizona St. golf coach turned Jon Rahm’s agent, will jump on his brother’s bag. – check back for updates at dklegends.com.

On a final note, I am just pondering the question all Daily Fantasy owners have… should there be an injury report in other sports besides Football? Please let us know your thought on Twitter @thedklegends.

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At 7,000 feet above sea level, Club de Golf Chapultepec, which is replacing a Trump course as the host of this week’s World Golf Championships event, poses challenges.

NAUCALPAN DE JUÁREZ, Mexico — The 90-minute drive down the Florida Turnpike from Palm Beach Gardens to Doral after the Honda Classic is gone, replaced this season by a three-hour charter flight to Mexico, where golfers will compete in this week’s World Golf Championships event.

The change in venues prompted the predictable laments stateside. But to wax rhapsodic about the good old days when golfers decamped to Florida for the month of March to gear up for the Masters is to turn a blind eye to the game’s evolution.

Since 1999, when the inaugural World Golf Championships event was held outside San Diego, the game has gone global. At that first match-play event, 39 of the 64 participants, or 61 percent of the field, were from the United States, and five of the top 10 golfers in the world rankings were Americans. This week, 29 of the 70 participants, or 41 percent of the stroke-play field, are from the United States, and four of the top 10 are Americans.

“Everything kind of evolves and moves on in the world, and I think golf’s so stuck in tradition and things,” said Adam Scott of Australia, who won the Doral event last year. “I think we’re a bit sentimental with some things and we have to move on and let it go and take it for what it was.”

Four years before he became the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump bought the Doral resort, a regular tour stop since the early 1960s, and spent $250 million on renovations to the grounds, only to lose the tournament when Cadillac’s sponsorship contract ran out last year.

Grupo Salinas, a Mexico City-based collection of companies primarily involved in retail, television and telecommunications, signed on as a sponsor in a seven-year deal and brought the tournament to Club de Golf Chapultepec.

The club is in an affluent neighborhood in Naucalpan, just outside Mexico City. At a venue with five-star accommodations and fine dining, the players are enjoying all the comforts of home — and apparently none of the residual discomfort from recent demonstrations elsewhere protesting Trump’s trade and immigration policies toward Mexico.

“I love it,” said William McGirt, who won the Memorial Tournament last year. “The golf course is fantastic. The people we’ve been dealing with are great. My experience has been very, very positive.”

Phil Mickelson practicing on Wednesday. On the range on Tuesday, Mickelson’s water consumption was conspicuous.

He added: “You hear how dangerous it is and this and that. I haven’t seen anything that would indicate that it’s dangerous at all.”

Aside from reporters and fans untrained in course etiquette, the main hardship confronting the players is the altitude; the city is more than 7,000 feet above sea level. As Phil Mickelson warmed up on the range Tuesday, the empty water bottles scattered around his bag increased in inverse proportion to the number of balls in his pile. Jordan Spieth said he played nine holes and felt as if he had played 18.

“In the gym this morning, it was a lot harder to do what is normally a lot easier,” Spieth said, adding, “They say give it 24 hours, but that will probably continue to be something that’s a factor here is just maintaining strength and endurance throughout the entire four days of competition.”

Then there is club selection, which can be tricky given how far the ball travels in the thin air. Rory McIlroy, returning to competition after being sidelined since mid-January with a rib injury, marveled that he was hitting shots with his 8-iron that traveled 210 yards.“It’s so hard to get used to and trust in your mind that that club is going to hit the ball that far,” he said.

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