March 3, 2022
Heavy favorite Rory McIlroy sits atop the leaderboard after day one at the API. McIlroy’s -7 (65) is closely challenged by Billy Horschel, Beau Hossler, and J. J. Spain’s -5. Quite a few others are log jammed at -4. Although the rough at Bay Hill was making things difficult for most, there were still a lot of birdies available to those who found the greens in regulation.
Even though defending champion Bryson DeChambeau and Jason Day withdrew from the tourney, it’s still a star-studded field, with over 2,000,000 going to the winner. Weather today was about as good as you could hope for and the forecast for the rest of the week looks good as well, so expect the scores to go low.
