{"id":519820,"date":"2026-03-07T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:31:08","slug":"theyre-already-dead-scottie-scheffler-among-those-feeling-mercilessness-of-bay-hills-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519820\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They’re already dead’: Scottie Scheffler among those feeling mercilessness of Bay Hill’s greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 The color progression on Bay Hill\u2019s trademark umbrella logo goes red, yellow, white, green. As for the putting surfaces around Arnie\u2019s Place for its annual PGA Tour stop, try green, yellow, brown, purple.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re getting brown,\u201d Collin Morikawa said Friday afternoon, \u201cand they\u2019re going to be very, very brown, if not purple, by Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a way, Justin Thomas was glad he\u2019d ejected early with rounds of 79-79 and over six shots dropped with the putter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is zero chance that they are going to be alive Sunday…,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThat is one good thing about now playing here this weekend because it is going to suck.\u201d<\/p>\n

The red-hot Daniel Berger has found a way to 13 under through two days of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, five strokes clear of the field, but even Berger, third on the week in strokes gained putting, called the greens borderline.<\/p>\n

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The 72-player signature event field has been cut after 36 holes at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. Here\u2019s how to watch third round coverage of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you put the putter down, there\u2019s no friction,\u201d Berger said. \u201cThe putter just wants to slide. \u2026 It feels like a U.S. Open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, playing in the third-to-last twosome off Friday, Scottie Scheffler didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re already dead,\u201d Scheffler told the Associated Press. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how much deader they can get. Like 15 is completely dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world No. 1 hit an approach on the par-4 15th that he thought he flagged, maybe a few feet from the hole. But when he arrived at the green, he discovered that his ball had bounded like a skydiver landing on a trampoline into the back bunker \u2013 and even worse, into a plugged lie.<\/p>\n

Scheffler would drain a 30-footer to save his par there, one of two putts that he converted on the day from outside of 30 feet. He also made a 38-footer for birdie on the par-4 fifth. But other than that, his 15-foot par conversion at the par-4 ninth was the only other putt he hooped from outside of 5 feet.<\/p>\n

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Scheffler saves par on 9 after over-powering bunker shot<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler was visibly upset with his third shot on the ninth hole during the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He responded with a brilliant par-save putt to close out the front 9.<\/p>\n

Scheffler\u2019s day ended with a missed 10-footer for par at the par-4 18th, a whiff that ignited a frustrated Scheffler, who plucked the ball from the cup after his tap-in bogey and immediately chucked it halfway across the lake, then was noticeably demonstrative as cameras remained on him while Russell Henley lined up his final putt. Scheffler took a few extra minutes to cool down in the scoring trailer, then emerged with a smile to answer a few questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can always hit it softer,\u201d Scheffler said of his par attempt at the last. \u201cI was surprised the ball picked up speed as it was rolling. There\u2019s no friction. When the ball starts rolling, you\u2019re at the mercy of the wind and the bumps.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And yet, Scheffler didn\u2019t putt horribly, ranking No. 30 in the field in strokes gained through two rounds. He also shot under par for the second straight day, following Thursday\u2019s 2-under 70 with a second-round 71.<\/p>\n

Perhaps fueling some of that fire was the fact that Scheffler, at 3 under, is nine shots back \u2013 and on a layout that isn\u2019t going to get any easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been like this before,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cTypically here, if you go late Friday, they\u2019re pretty much already dead. It\u2019s not anything unusual. It\u2019s a good test. It\u2019s hard. There are certain holes that get a little silly because the run-ups are soft and the greens are so firm. But it\u2019s like that every year. This year is actually less windy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had crazy wind, they probably would have had to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, they\u2019ll charge on, be it on brown or even purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 The color progression on Bay Hill\u2019s trademark umbrella logo goes red, yellow, white, green. As…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-519820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}