Bill Haas makes up for bad start at Bay Hill
Justin Rose, the first-round leader after a 65, and Tiger Woods were among those playing in the afternoon as the temperatures finally warmed.
Haas was challenging for the lead on Thursday until he had to settle for par on the easy par-5 16th. He hit into a back bunker on the par-3 17th for a bogey and finished his round with a three-putt bogey from 8 feet.
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Hide Ad“So to leave, basically giving two away, my goal today was try to get those two back and go from there,” Haas said. “That was kind of my mindset today, and then I was able to keep it going.”
Phil Mickelson four-putted from 5 feet on the 13th hole for triple bogey and his hopes of making the cut ended when his tee on the ninth went out of bounds. He closed with a triple bogey and a 79, his highest score ever in 48 rounds at Bay Hill.
“There is a huge discrepancy between the low scores and the high scores,” he said. “Obviously, I played terrible and I deserved to shoot a score like this. But I felt like if I hit good shots, I could make birdies.”