ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Justin Rose started out as another guy in Tiger Woods’ group Thursday at Bay Hill. He wound up in the lead.
Rose put on a clinic with the putter and ran off four straight birdies late in his round of 7-under 65. That gave him a four-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational among those who played early in a chilly breeze.
Woods had two sloppy bogeys from greenside bunkers and didn’t hit it as well as he did when he won Doral two weeks ago. But he made enough key par saves and manhandled the par 5s to scratch out a 69, a reasonable start as he tries to win Bay Hill for the eighth time and return to No. 1 in the world.
Both made eagle from inside 15 feet — Woods hit a 9- iron for a second shot on a hole that was playing downwind — but that’s where their fortunes changed.
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