ORLANDO, Fla. – Without a reprieve from Mother Nature or a softhearted lapse by the PGA Tour’s set-up crew, this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational will be the season’s toughest test.
The current scoring average of 73.556 is easily the season’s toughest, with the current front-runner being last week’s stop at the Honda Classic (71.341), and players were bracing for another demanding final round with winds forecast to gust to 20 mph throughout the final round. With next week’s Players Championship and TPC Sawgrass looming, it’s shaping up to be a long month.
“Playing last week and then this week, the mental grind, we were talking that Tampa [the final leg of the Florida swing] is going to feel like a cake walk,” Gary Woodland said.