ORLANDO, Fla. – Rickie Fowler managed only a 2-over 74 Thursday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but he did make birdie after going driver off the deck on Bay Hill's par-5 fourth hole.
Fowler, who birdied three of the four par 5s in Round 1, had 280 yards left to the front edge of the green with a clean, uphill lie. A 3-wood, Fowler said, "wasn't going to have a chance." That made driver off the deck, which typically flies 5-10 yards farther than Fowler's 3-wood (and with more heat on it), the best option.
"I haven't hit that in a while, haven't had to," Fowler said, "but it's a shot I hit a lot.