Kevin McArthur wins Scottish seniors’ 

Stableford at Monifieth Links with 38 pts



By GORDON THOMSON
The third of this year’s Scottish Seniors Golfing Society winter events  was won at Monifieth Links by Kevin McArthur (Balbirnie Park) with the fine Stableford points score of 38.
Playing off a handicap of five, Kevin overcame the disappointment of scoring no points at the long fifth hole to chalk up  four birdies  and win by one point from three players tied on 37pts - Donnie Lindsay (Kilmarnock Barassie) (6), Ian Johnston (Williamwood) (5) and Robin Craw (Glenbervie) (2).

POINTS TOTALS
38 Kevin McArthur (Balbirnie Park) (5).
37 Donnie Lindsday (Kilmarnock Barassie) (6), Ian Johnston (Williamwood) (5), Robin Craw (Glenbervie) (2).
36 Ian Morrison (Royal Aberdeen) (4), Gordon MacDonald (Glenbervie) (2), Tom Nicol (Elderslie) (11), Colin Halcrow (Windyhill) (4), Forbes McLennan (Royal Aberdeen) (7), Norman Dyce (Strathmore) (2).
35 Keith Bruce (Edzell) (2), David Smith (Stirling) (5), Phil Hendry (Alloa) (4).
34 Derek Sim (Grange) (6), Keith Ross (Beith) (5), David Halkerston (St Andrews New) (7), Richard Lang (Grange) (4), Gordon MacLeod (Glenbervie) (3), Jim Roy (Panmure) (6)..
33 Alan Harrington (Western Gailes) (5), Kenneth Harrison (Peebles) (5), Allan Elder (Kirkcaldy) (3), Jalil (Grangemouth) (2), Ian Kerr (Kilmacolm) (6), Bruce Hunter (Stirling) (9), Brian Halbert (Callander) (6), David Millar (St Andrews New) (5), Joe McManus (Uphall) (1), Bill Erskine (Kilsyth) (2), David Causon (Elderslie) (7), Brian Reid (Dunbar) (4).
32 Les Smith (Erskine) (7), Neish Chisholm (Kemnay) (12), Dougie Greenhalgh (St Andrews New) (10), John McDonald (Cowglen) (2).
31 Stuart Drysdale (Turnhouse) (5), Phil Dempsey (Tulliallan) (4),  Ian Dickson (Lundin) (6), Ian Reid (Dumfries and Galloway) (2), Drew Wilson (Clober) (5), Gordon Rennie (Cathkin Braes) (3).
30 Ian Nimmo (Kilspindie) (5), George Barrie (Callander) (2), Brian Kidd (Panmure) (5).
29 Alistair Raphael (St Andrews) (4), Richard Gray (Rowallan Castle) (2), Bill Methven (Royal Aberdeen) (5).
28 Duncan Hamilton (Mortonhall) (1), Lindsay Clark (Edzell) (5)
27 Stuart Black (Cathcart Castle) (scr), Malcolm Sim (Grange) (9)
24 Gordon Gray (Newmachar) (9).

Round 2 scoreboard in Senior Golf Circuit's Cadiz Tournament

		Rnd 1	Rnd 2	HCP	NETT
		Neil Evans	WD			WD
		Marcel Capaul	79	82		WD
		Mark Mouland	74			WD
TEE 10	11:00	Rene Schumacher AK	103	99	9	184
TEE 10		Gabriel Benoudiz	105	106	15	181
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:50	Joel Capre	86	93		179
TEE 10		Gaetan Bikindou	89	88		177
TEE 10		Richard Nass	92	100	10	172
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:40	Todou Bouba	83	87		170
TEE 10		Rogeirio Silva	94	99	13	167
TEE 10		Frederick Lemaitre AK	90	88	6	166
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:30	Mehdi Zelli Tabar	93	87	7	166
TEE 10		Xavier Naudet	82	81		164
TEE 10		Charles Haynes	83	80		163
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:20	Pierre Puisset	80	83		163
TEE 10		Bruno Carsenti	87	90	7	163
TEE 10		Bill Loughrey	85	89	6	162
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:10	Rob Hunter	84	75		159
TEE 10		Eric Branca	82	77		159
TEE 10		Christian Munoz	88	84	7	158
TEE 10
TEE 10	10:00	Scott Davidson	80	78		158
TEE 10		Stephen Murphy	78	78		156
TEE 10		Elidio Costa	78	77		155
TEE 10
TEE 10	09:50	Doug Young	77	78		155
TEE 10		Chris Lavery	82	85	6	155
TEE 10		Gary Pike	77	77		154
TEE 1	09:40	John Twissel	77	77		154
TEE 1		John Waters	83	80	5	153
TEE 1		Selwyn Burke	78	79	2	153
TEE 1
TEE 1	09:50	Nigel Tokley	75	78		153
TEE 1		Tony Stevens	77	74		151
TEE 1		Mark Spooner	76	75		151
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:00	James Murphy	78	72		150
TEE 1		Stephen McAllister	75	74		149
TEE 1		Lyndsey Mann	74	75		149
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:10	Gordon Brand Jnr	73	76		149
TEE 1		Fraser Mann	74	74		148
TEE 1		Ian Skidmore	81	84	6	153
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:20	Gordon J Brand	71	76		147
TEE 1		Glyn Davies	74	72		146
TEE 1		Daniel Westermark	76	69		145
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:30	Jose Romero	73	72		145
TEE 1		David Ray	68	77		145
TEE 1		David James	71	72		143
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:40	Carl Suneson	69	74		143
TEE 1		Nigel Sweet	76	67		143
TEE 1		Nick Job	72	70		142
TEE 1
TEE 1	10:50	Juan Quiros	71	71		142
TEE 1		Gary Emerson	69	73		142
TEE 1		Matt Briggs	68	74		142
TEE 1
TEE 1	11:00	Pedro Linhart	71	70		141
TEE 1		Gary Marks	70	71		141
TEE 1		Jon Bevan	69	70		139

Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill

Chappell bogeys 18th, Day regains lead with 

birdie at 17th and wins by one stroke

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Tournament leader Kevin Chappell bogeyed the last hole to drop back to 16-under-par 272 while the man he had headed earlier with birdies at the 13th and 16th, World No 1 Jason Day, birdied the 17th to get to 17-under-par, and parred the last to beat Chappell's total by one stroke at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Golf Club, Florida.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
271 Jason Day (Australia) 66 65 70 70
272 Kevin Chappell (US) 68 68 67 69 
274 Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 67 66 70 71, Troy Merritt (USA) 67 69 67 71
276 Zach Johnson (USA) 70 70 68 68
277 Jamie Lovemark (USA) 68 68 71 70, Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 70 69 71 67,  Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Thailand) 70 69 73 65

SELECTED SCORES
278 Paul Casey (England) 68 69 72 69, Justin Rose (England) 68 66 71 73, Francesco Molinari (Italy) 68 72 69 69  (T9)
279 Adam Scott (Australia) 67 73 70 69 (T12)
281 Chris Wood (England) 69 69 71 72 (T20)
282 Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) 75 67 75 65, Matthew Fitzpatrick (England) 79 71 72 69, Andy Sullivan (England) 70 70 72 (T27)
284 Martin Laird (Scotland) 69 74 70 71 (T43)
285 Ian Poulter (England) 72 70 72 71, Greg Owen (England) 71 71 72 71 (T46).
294 Ernie Els (S Africa) 70 74 73 77 (T74)

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Gavin Hay wins North Scottish Alliance title 

by 5 shots with a 65 at Fortrose and R/markie

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Nairn Dunbar assistant professional Gavin Hay won the North Scottish Alliance championship at Fortrose and Rosemarkie on Saturday with a six-under-par 65 despite bogeying the first two holes.

Gavin, pictured, covered the remaining 16 holes in eight under par with halves of 34 and 31.

Jordan Shaw (Boat of Garten) was runner-up with a 70.

Defending champion Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), bidding to win the title for a eighth time since 2000 and a fourth time since 2012 finished tied fifth with a 73.

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Swede Seb Soderberg wins Kenya Open 

Scott Henry, the only Scot to survive the halfway cut, finished T33 in the Kenya Open championship at Karen Country Club, Nairobi today.
Henry shot 76, 68, 68 and 72 for four-under-par 284 and earned 1,628 euros.
Sweden's Seb Soderbrerg won the title, the trophy (pictured above) and the 35,200 euros first prize with an 18-under-par 270 aggregate, mate up of rounds of 67, 68, 68 and 67.
He won by three shots from an amateur, Frenchman Romain Langasque, last year's British amateur champion, who scored 69, 70, 69 and 65  for 15-under 273  to pip Germany's Berd Ritthammer (71-65-73-65 for 274 and 24,250 euros) for third place.

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British amateur champion finishes second

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Sebastian Soderberg surged to a maiden European Challenge Tour victory as he won the season-opening Barclays Kenya Open by three shots at Nairobi’s Karen Country Club.
The Swede held a three-shot advantage overnight and never faltered, his five under par final round of 67 – his fourth round in the 60s this week – putting him on 18 under par overall in front of the watching President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Soderberg now takes an early lead in the Road to Oman Rankings after earning 35,200 points and the 25 year old has already fulfilled one of his season aims by winning for the first time.
“It feels pretty unreal right now,” he said. “I was just trying to keep it together all day – one of my goals for the season was to win an event on the Challenge Tour, so I’ve crossed that off the list
“It gives me a good boost so I’m more excited than ever for the rest of the season, but I haven’t really had long to think about it yet, it hasn’t sunk in properly.
“I had the same approach today as the rest of the week and it worked pretty well, though I changed it on 18 a bit and took three wood, just to make sure.
“I had a slow front nine but I managed to make a few birdies around the turn and after that I just tried to keep calm and carry on – it was tough, but it feels really good now.
“The crowds and support were incredible. I missed the cut here last year so didn’t get to experience the weekend atmosphere but I’ve never known a Challenge Tour event like it, it was amazing.”
In second place was Frenchman Romain Langasque, playing in his penultimate event as an amateur before he turns professional after competing in next month’s Masters Championship at Augusta.
The 20 year old fired a final round of 65 – breaking Louis Oosthuizen’s course amateur record – and becomes the first player to take advantage of new regulations allowing amateurs to earn Road to Oman Ranking points.
“It was a good round,” he said. “I knew my game was good before this round, I’d just been making a few mistakes in the first few rounds, so this morning I just thought I’d play my own game.
“My attitude was perfect all week, so all the work of this winter is working now, and it’s good to play like that before Augusta because I’m confident that I can play well even with that added pressure.
“The Rankings points is great because I now think it is enough for me to now play a full season on the Challenge Tour, which is one less pressure. Now my objective is to finish in the top 15 and get on the European Tour next year.”
Germany’s Bernd Ritthammer took third place on 14 under par, three shots ahead of compatriot Sebastian Heisele, South African duo Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Dylan Frittelli and Norway’s Espen Kofstad.
The next stop on the Road to Oman is Egypt for the Red Sea Egyptian Challenge Presented by Hassan Allam Properties next month, the second of 28 tournaments on this year’s schedule that will visit 22 different countries.

         Home hero Chawrasia wins Indian Open 

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New Delhi: S S P Chawrasia of India birdied the last hole for a one-under-par 71 to claim a popular two-shot victory over Anirban Lahiri and Jeunghun Wang at the US$1.66 million Hero Indian Open today.

Chawrasia, who finished second four times prior to this win, was delighted to hold on to his overnight lead and cross the finishing line with a winning total of 15-under-par 273 in the event sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour.

Lahiri, the reigning Asian Tour number one, missed his birdie attempt on the last for a 69 to settle for tied second place alongside South Korean rising star Wang who returned with a battling 68 at the challenging Delhi Golf Club.

“It is a very important day for me. I have finished second four times in the Indian Open and every time that happen to me I wondered if I would ever be able to one day be the champion. This year, I came believing I had to win. I knew that I could do it,” said Chawrasia, who won US$276,660. 

It was a close and dramatic battle in the final 18 holes as numerous players came within striking distance of Chawrasia’s lead when he was one-over after 12 holes.

He rallied with a birdie on 13 and when it mattered most, produced a sublime chip on the last hole to set-up his winning three foot birdie putt. Lahiri also had a birdie chance which he missed.

“There was a lot of pressure on me on the last hole but I had to say thank God when Anirban missed his birdie putt! I played a great chip there and then when he missed I knew I would win the tournament. 

“This win means so much to me. I don’t know how I will celebrate it. I will let my wife do that for me. Last year when I lost, she was crying so now we can both enjoy this victory together,” smiled Chawrasia, who won his fourth Asian Tour title.

Lahiri piled the early pressure on Chawrasia when he birdied his opening three holes but struggled to keep pace as he settled for joint runner-up. 

“It was pretty intense. I got off to a great start but lost a bit of momentum after that. I gave myself a lot of chances but missed quite few from 15-20 feet but at the end of day, SSP hung tough and played very well,” he said.

“There is nothing sweeter than being the Indian Open champion. It was a disappointing finish after a promising start for me. But I am so happy for SSP. This win is huge for him,” added Lahiri.

Wang, a member of Team Asia at the EurAsia Cup earlier this year, came close to winning his first Asian Tour title before settling for second best after producing a bogey-free 68 highlighted by four birdies. 

“I gave my best out there. I’m very proud with how I played. I had a chance to win but it is okay because Chawrasia played very well. I’m happy with my performance and I hope to continue to do well. One day, my win will come,” said the 20-year-old Wang.

Without playing a practice round, Angelo Que of the Philippines fired a stunning 65 to charge up the leaderboard and finish in tied fourth place alongside Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva on 276s, three shots from the champion. 

“When you shoot bogey free and a 65 on this course, well that’s something. I didn’t have any trouble today. I hit it really well. My irons were spot on and my putting helped. I’m very happy because I came in on the Thursday morning,” said the bubbly Filipino.

 

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4x72). Yardage 6,983

273 - S S P CHAWRASIA (IND) 67-67-68-71.

275 - Jeunghun WANG (KOR) 67-74-66-68, Anirban LAHIRI (IND) 68-71-67-69.

276 - Angelo QUE (PHI) 70-71-70-65, Adilson DA SILVA (BRA) 72-66-69-69.

278 - Gregory HAVRET (FRA) 68-70-71-69, Daniel IM (USA) 65-74-70-69, Thangaraja N. (SRI) 69-71-68-70, Rashid KHAN (IND) 69-68-69-72.

279 - David LIPSKY (USA) 69-67-75-68, Shiv KAPUR (IND) 72-67-70-70, Jorge CAMPILLO (ESP) 66-71-71-71, Julien QUESNE (FRA) 70-68-70-71, Rahil GANGJEE (IND) 69-72-66-72.

280 - Jbe KRUGER (RSA) 71-70-71-68, Jazz JANEWATTANANOND (THA) 71-69-70-70, Maximilian KIEFFER (GER) 69-70-70-71, Alejandro CANIZARES (ESP) 68-69-71-72, Terry PILKADARIS (AUS) 67-64-73-76.

281 - Danny CHIA (MAS) 70-71-71-69, Arjun ATWAL (IND) 70-71-67-73, Sebastien GROS (FRA) 69-70-68-74.

282 - Chris PAISLEY (ENG) 70-68-78-66, Jeev Milkha SINGH (IND) 72-71-71-68, Chapchai NIRAT (THA) 70-71-71-70, Ajeetesh SANDHU (IND) 76-66-70-70.

283 - Nicholas FUNG (MAS) 73-70-72-68, Nacho ELVIRA (ESP) 66-68-79-70, Shamim KHAN (IND) 71-70-72-70, Sanjay KUMAR (IND) 67-72-72-72.

SELECTED TOTALS
284 Peter Uihlein (USA) 72 68 73 71 (T31)
286 Scott Jamieson (Scotland) 73 69 69 75 (T43)
288 Craig Lee (Scotland) 70 70 77 71 (T51)

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Aberdeen student's T33 finish in big Dallas field

Adam Fisher from Aberdeen, a freshman student at Missouri State University, finished tied 33rd in a field of 102 players at the Bob Sitton Invitational college tournament over 54 holes at TPC Four Seasons Golf Club, Dallas in Texas on Friday.

Fisher, pictured, had rounds of 80, 73 and 72 for a total of 225 over a par-71 course of 6,787yd.

He finished 11 shots behind the winner, Cody Burrows (Oral Roberts) (73-71-70 for 214).

Missouri State (898) finished 10th of 17 in the team event won by Long Beach State (867) from Stephen F Austin State (878) and Central Arkansas (884).

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Duncan just outside top 20 finish in N Carolina

George Duncan from Dumbartonshire, a third-year student at Lincoln Memorial University,  finished T22 in a field of 90 at the Hargett Memorial college tournament at Monroe Country Club, North Carolina.

Duncan, pictured right, had rounds of 74, 71 and 72 for a total of 217 over a par-72 course of 6,725yd
Freshman team-mate Sam Broadhurst from Nuneaton scored 71, 78 and 71 for 220 and a share of 33rd place
Craig Stephen from Torphins, a second-year student at Brevard College, North Carolina, finished T44 on 223 with scores of 69, 78 and 76.
Winner by one strokes was Brad Hawkins (Tusculum) with scores of 67, 68 and 73 for 208.
Lenoir Rhyne (851) won the team title by a single short from Young Harris College (852) with Lincoln Memorial (855) third and Brevard College (874) 10th.

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 Lahiri makes moved in final round of Indian Open after Paisley sets clubhouse target

PROGRESS REPORT FROM FINAL ROUND OF INDIAN OPEN
NEW DELHI: Defending champion Anirban Lahiri picked up three shots in the early stages of today's final round of the Hero Indian Open to heap the pressure on overnight leader SSP Chawrasia at Delhi Golf Club.
Chawrasia came into the final day with a two-shot advantage over Australian Terry Pilkadaris at 14 under and, while he made a solid start with three pars, playing partner Lahiri started birdie-birdie-birdie to get within one stroke of the lead.
A two-time European Tour winner last season, Lahiri is the highest ranked player in the field this week but Chawrasia has some pedigree around Delhi Golf Club with ten top tens in 16 appearances, including two wins.
Lahiri made gains on the first and second and when Chawrasia failed to take advantage of the par five opener for the first time this week after finding the trees, his mind may have drifted back to last season when his countryman overturned a seven-shot deficit here to beat him in a play-off.
Lahiri then rolled in a third birdie from 35 feet on the third and all of a sudden he was just a single shot off the lead.

That was one shot clear of Pilkadaris, who joined Chawrasia in parring the opening three holes.
Another Indian, Rashid Khan, had a birdie on the first to get within three of the leader, one clear of French trio Grégory Havret, Sébastien Gros and Julien Quesne, Brazilian Adilson da Silva and South Korea's Jeunghun Wang.
Englishman Chris Paisley had set the early clubhouse target at six under after a highly impressive 66 that was his best round on The European Tour since August.
He opened with a birdie and then eagled the eighth before making further gains on the 13th, 14th and last.

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Jason Day leads by two after three rounds at 

Palmer's Place, three share second place

FROM GOLFWEEK.COM

By Jeff Babineau

ORLANDO, Florida – You want perspective at the Arnold Palmer Invitational? Well, it all depends which prism through which one chooses to view.

Jason Day, pictured right after a previous victory, who muddled through a soggy 2-under 70 and leads by two shots at 15-under 201, was the hottest player on earth last autumn, winning four times in six starts, which included a pair of FedEx Cup Playoff victories. He may not have caught Jordan Spieth in the PGA Tour Player of the Year race, but he at least made it a late-season conversation.
Bay Hill marks only his sixth start since winning at BMW, and six starts is but a finger-snap on the Tour schedule ... but his internal clock is telling him he hasn’t held a trophy in six months, and that seems to be a long time.
Henrik Stenson? He was your 54-hole leader here at Bay Hill a year ago, and lost by one to Matt Every. He hasn’t won in the U.S. since the 2013 Tour Championship, a span of 35 starts, and hasn’t won around the globe since the 2014 European Tour season-ender in Dubai.
The Swede’s had it with all the runner-up finishes, and he trails Day by two. On Saturday, the 39-year-old built some nice momentum with a birdie-birdie-eagle run starting at the fourth hole, but got a few unlucky breaks and played his last 12 holes in 2 over.
Sunday is a day to end his frustration.

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Troy Merritt, 30, tied with Stenson and Kevin Chappell for second, captured the Quicken Loans National, his first PGA Tour victory, last summer, and is 1-for-111 thus far in his Tour career. 
If you think he arrived to Bay Hill hot, you’d be mistaken. He missed the cut in five of his last six starts. But Merritt smiles and says that on-again, off-again form is in his golf DNA.
Said Merritt, who along with Chappell and Byeong-Hun An posted the day’s low round of 67, “Just because you haven't played well, you know, a few weeks in a row or finished well, missed cuts, doesn't mean you're actually playing poorly. You're not getting the job done, not scoring well. There might be one, two things you need to tweak. We got those taken care of earlier this week.”
And then there is Chappell, a former NCAA champion out of UCLA. He arrived with all sorts of can’t-miss tags on him following a solid collegiate career with the Bruins. But this week marks his 150th PGA Tour start, and if it seems as if he hasn’t won in forever, well, that would be correct. Chappell, 29, will be chasing his first victory on Sunday.
“I guess the personal pressures are much larger than external pressures,” Chappell said.
 He was two shots out of the lead at Northern Trust at Riviera last month in his home state but shot 76 and tumbled to T-26. “I know not many people expect me to win tomorrow, but I'm sure going to give it a shot and we'll see what happens.”
Does he feel he is ready to win?
“Yeah,” he said. “It's something I thought about thousands and thousands of times, and I could see myself doing it. It's just a matter of going out and doing it and I can't think of a better place to get my first win, (at) the castle that Mr. (Arnold) Palmer built and in front of a world-class field.”
Every player on Tour has hurdles to overcome, and winning is difficult, no matter your pedigree. In the last year, Day has just figured it out better than most. He entered January 2015 with two PGA Tour victories to his name, and at 27 (then), was beginning to sense he was more than overdue. 
He did something about it, stepping forth with a five-win campaign that included his first major, the PGA Championship, where he turned back golf’s golden child, Jordan Spieth. 
He knows every venture into contention offers with it a learning experience, and now that he knows how to close, can’t wait to get to the first tee on Sunday.
“It’s good to be back in contention,” Day said. “It's good to feel the feelings that go through your body and know that certain shots you have to bear down, and certain shots you have to kind of lean back on. I love the feeling of having the lead.
" It's great. Now you just got to go out there and push forward and keep pushing forward until 18 is done.”
After two days of friendly scoring conditions at Arnie’s Place, players went off early on Saturday and still could not dodge intermittent rains and the swirling breezes that accompanied them. Just pulling the right club became a challenge. Temperatures dropped as much as 20 degrees, and Day said he constantly was faced with adjusting to different distances his ball was flying. He normally hits his 4-iron 220 yards; Saturday, the same club was travelling about 200. At day’s end, he was worn out, appearing like a boxer who’d just slipped out of the ring.
“I’m just glad I’m in,” he sighed.
His Sunday task will not be easy, as there are few guarantees that accompany a 54-hole lead. Only seven of 17 leaders through 54 holes have taken home trophies this season.
 Stenson learned how difficult it was to sleep on the lead a year ago, and playing in the final group, he (and fellow competitor Morgan Hoffmann) were even put on the clock on the back nine. Stenson rushed himself on Bay Hill’s 15th green, three-putting for bogey, and then made a disappointing par at the reachable par-5 16th, generally the easiest hole on the course. He’d lose the tournament by a shot.
What did he learn from the experience?
“Maybe take a little bit more time if you get on the clock,” quipped the quick-witted Stenson. “... Other than that, just got to go – when you're in contention, you’ve got to go out and play a solid round of golf. I played all right last year but I didn't get it finished. "Hopefully we're in a different position now. We need to come from behind and play really a good round tomorrow if we want to have a shot at it.”
Easy for Stenson to say. He has won 16 times around the globe, and each of his four PGA Tour titles has come at a top-tier event. He has won the WGC Match Play, a Players, and won twice in the FedEx playoffs in 2013. He, like Day, should have an edge in experience, but in this game, you simply never know. Sunday at Bay Hill could be wild and wide open.
Day said he will lean on some advice via text he has gleened from a golfer who knows a little bit about winning, and winning at Bay Hill – Tiger Woods, who won eight titles here – and in the end, if he hits the proper shots, he’ll have given himself a chance.
“It's going to be an enjoyable day tomorrow regardless of what happens,” Day said. “I’m going to enjoy it no matter what and, you know, at the end of the day, know that I've played good golf all week.
“If I do have a good day, that's great. If not, don't worry about it. Keep moving on and trying to improve from there.”
It’s all in one’s perspective.
 THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
 Par 216 (3x72)
201 Jason Day (Australia) 66 65 70
203 Troy Merritt (USA) 67 67 67, Kevin Chappell (USA) 68 68 67, Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 67 66 70
205 Derek Fathauer (USA) 70 66 69, Justin Rose (England) 68 66 71

SELECTED SCORES
209 Chris Wood (England) 69 69 71, Paul Casey (England) 68 68 72 (T13)
210 Andy Sullivan (England) 70 70 70, Adam Scott (Australia) 67 73 70 (T18)
213 Matthew Fitzpatrick (England) 70 71 72, Martin Laird (Scotland) 69 74 70 (T38)
214 Greg Owen (England) 71 71 72, Ian Poulter (England) 72 70 72 (T46)
217 Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) 75 67 75 (T64)


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