🏌🏻 Super Quick Update

Good Morning! Going into the weekend with 6 players tied for the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, including World #1 Scottie Scheffler and winners of two signature events this season, Wyndham Clark and Hideki Matsuyama.

We’ll be back next on Monday with the final results of what seems like an exciting tournament, may be down to the wire. Have a fun weekend!

Fun Fact: Lydia Ko is T-1 after Round 3 of the Blue Bay LPGA tournament. In 2015, she became the youngest player, male or female, to reach No 1 in the world.

⛳ This day in history: The Arnold Palmer Invitational concludes this weekend, but on today’s date in 1967, the tournament’s earlier incarnation, the Florida Citrus Open, began with the first round. Arnold would shoot 67-69-71-68—275 to tie for second and earn $11,212.

TOP STORY
6-Way Tie At The Top

Fifty-eight players made the cut out of the original 69-player field after the second round in Bay Hill.

🚀 Six-Way Tie At The Top: Five former major winners: Scheffler (67), Clark (66), Brian Harman (68), Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (70) and Ireland's Shane Lowry (71) share the lead after Round 2 alongside Russell Henley.

They are one stroke ahead of seventh-placed Will Zalatoris.

🚫 Stars Miss The Cut: Top-ranked golfers like Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Scott, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and defending champion Kurt Kitayama missed the cut at Bay Hill.

World No 11 Ludvig Aberg had a narrow escape.

 📌 McIlroy's Putter Back On Track: Rory McIlroy and Brad Faxon, the eight-time Tour winner who’s now an NBC Sports analyst, spent an hour on the putting greens working on McIlroy’s stroke after Round 1.

The work paid off - McIlroy gained three strokes on the greens during Round 2, after losing the same amount on Thursday.

 ⏳ Notables In Contention: While there are six players tied at the top, some of the sport's most notable names are not far off.

Viktor Hovland, Justin Thomas, Sahith Theegala and Max Homa all lie T-10 - three shots behind the leading pack.

🏌️ Rd. 3 Tee Times Of Key Players (ET):
10:50 am: Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy
01:20 pm: Wyndham Clark, Scottie Scheffler
01:40 pm: Shane Lowry, Hideki Matsuyama

Watch Round 2 Highlights

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Worth Mentioning

WEEKEND READING
These Golf Rules No Longer Exist

Here are some old golfing laws that have either been changed over the years or discarded completely.

⛳️ The Stymie: If one player’s ball on the putting green interfered with another player’s line of putt, the interfering ball could only be marked if the two balls were within six inches of each other.

The stymie was eliminated when the first joint USGA and R&A Rules of Golf came into effect in 1952.

⛳️ The Small Ball Rule: Up until 1990, the minimum size of golf balls in the Rules of Golf was not standardised - USGA's minimum specified size was 1.68 inches while it was 1.62 inches for the R&A.

Today, all golfers play a ball of 1.68 inches diameter.

⛳️ The Five-Minute Search Rule: Up until 2019, players had five minutes to find their ball from the time they started their search.

The time limit has since been reduced to 3 minutes.

⛳️ The Double Hit Penalty: Up until 2019, if you made a pass at the ball, duffed it into the air and then struck it again on the way through – a “double hit” you had to count the stroke and incur a one-stroke penalty.

⛳️ The No Club Replacement Rule: Until 2023, players were never allowed to replace a club that had been damaged during the course of normal play.

The modified rules now allow replacements except in cases of abuse.

Check out the complete list.

DRIVING RANGE
How To Hit More Fairways

In this video, Todd Kolb shows us how to aim driver to learn how to hit a draw with driver and get more accurate distance off the tee.

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