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GREAT SCOTT! ADAM LEADS WITH A 62
BUBBA WATSON HAS 83 - WITHDRAWS
Adam Scott has set a cracking pace in the early stages of the first day in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Country Club, Florida.
The Aussie - winner of the Masters less than 13 months ago - has equalled the course record of 10-under-par 62!
Scott made two eagle putts and had three birdie putts longer than 20 feet, one of them from well off the green on the 15th hole. It gave the 33-year-old Australian a four-shot lead among the early starters on an ideal weather day.
It was the lowest round in 30 years at Bay Hill, and it was good enough to make a big crowd forget for a moment that defending champion and world No. 1 Tiger Woods isn't there this week. Woods withdrew because of a back injury.
Andy Bean in 1981 and Greg Norman in 1984 are the only others to shoot 62 at Bay Hill.
Astonishingly, Scott said he had thought about NOT playing.
He had been suffering from mild flu symptoms for a couple of days. He tried to sleep Wednesday night but was up every hour. He said he had difficulty breathing.
Scott had a fever and the sweats. His glands felt swollen, his nose congested.
“I wasn’t really up for it this morning,” he said.
Adam, pictured right, is the clubhouse leader by four shots from Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano with three players on 67 - England's Paul Casey and Americans Brandt Snedeker and Morgan Hoffman.
Bubba Watson withdrew shortly after his first round, citing allergies. Watson, who lives in nearby Isleworth in Windermere, shot 11-over 83, a round that included one birdie, a triple bogey at the par-4 18th and an 11 at the par-5 sixth hole.
"Just wanted to tell my fans I'm sorry I had to withdraw from @APinv this week. My allergies have taken over!" Watson tweeted via his Twitter account, @BubbaWatson.
At the sixth, Watson put three tee balls into the water left. He then found the right rough with his seventh shot, and after missing the green well short with his eighth, eventually two-putted for the 11.
"It's hard to focus when you're heads all discombobulated from medicine and pollen," Watson added on Twitter.
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BUBBA WATSON HAS 83 - WITHDRAWS
Adam Scott has set a cracking pace in the early stages of the first day in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Country Club, Florida.
The Aussie - winner of the Masters less than 13 months ago - has equalled the course record of 10-under-par 62!
Scott made two eagle putts and had three birdie putts longer than 20 feet, one of them from well off the green on the 15th hole. It gave the 33-year-old Australian a four-shot lead among the early starters on an ideal weather day.
It was the lowest round in 30 years at Bay Hill, and it was good enough to make a big crowd forget for a moment that defending champion and world No. 1 Tiger Woods isn't there this week. Woods withdrew because of a back injury.
Andy Bean in 1981 and Greg Norman in 1984 are the only others to shoot 62 at Bay Hill.
Astonishingly, Scott said he had thought about NOT playing.
He had been suffering from mild flu symptoms for a couple of days. He tried to sleep Wednesday night but was up every hour. He said he had difficulty breathing.
Scott had a fever and the sweats. His glands felt swollen, his nose congested.
“I wasn’t really up for it this morning,” he said.
Adam, pictured right, is the clubhouse leader by four shots from Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano with three players on 67 - England's Paul Casey and Americans Brandt Snedeker and Morgan Hoffman.
Bubba Watson withdrew shortly after his first round, citing allergies. Watson, who lives in nearby Isleworth in Windermere, shot 11-over 83, a round that included one birdie, a triple bogey at the par-4 18th and an 11 at the par-5 sixth hole.
"Just wanted to tell my fans I'm sorry I had to withdraw from @APinv this week. My allergies have taken over!" Watson tweeted via his Twitter account, @BubbaWatson.
At the sixth, Watson put three tee balls into the water left. He then found the right rough with his seventh shot, and after missing the green well short with his eighth, eventually two-putted for the 11.
"It's hard to focus when you're heads all discombobulated from medicine and pollen," Watson added on Twitter.
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