{"id":6536,"date":"2023-03-03T18:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/arnold-palmer-invitational-jon-rahm-leads-at-bay-hill\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:23:29","slug":"arnold-palmer-invitational-jon-rahm-leads-at-bay-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/arnold-palmer-invitational-jon-rahm-leads-at-bay-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer Invitational: Jon Rahm leads at Bay Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jon Rahm regained top spot in the world rankings with his third win of the year at February’s Genesis Invitational<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-7<\/strong> J Rahm (Spa); <\/span>-5 <\/strong>K Kitiyama (US), C Kirk (US), C Young (US); <\/span>-4<\/strong> A Shenk (US), S Scheffler (US), J Spieth (US), A Rai (Eng), X Schauffele (US), P Cantlay (US), R Fowler (US), K Bradley (US)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: -2<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng), D Willett (Eng); <\/span>-1 <\/strong>V Hovland (Nor), L Donald (Eng), T Hatton (Eng), M Laird (Sco); <\/span>E <\/strong>S Lowry (Ire);<\/span> +1<\/strong> R McIlroy (NI), T Fleetwood (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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World number one Jon Rahm shot a seven-under-par 65 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Spaniard made six birdies and an eagle and the only blemish on his scorecard was a bogey at the eighth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Chris Kirk, who won last week’s Honda Classic, is in a three-way tie for second with fellow Americans Cameron Young and Kurt Kitayama.<\/span><\/p>\n

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is one stroke further back on four under.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy opened with a bogey after finding a greenside bunker and it signalled the start of a see-saw round for the Northern Irishman. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 33-year-old, ranked third in the world behind Rahm and Scheffler, made three birdies but a double bogey at the sixth and a dropped shot at the 14th – where he again found sand – proved costly as he signed for a one-over 73.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a more positive day for Englishman Aaron Rai, who started on the back nine and is well placed alongside Scheffler after a 68.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan Spieth, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Keegan Bradley and the resurgent Rickie Fowler are also in a high-powered group on four under.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are part of a top-class field that contains 43 of the world’s top-50 players who are competing for a purse of \u00a317m, of which more than \u00a33m will go to the champion.<\/span><\/p>\n

US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick and former Masters winner Danny Willett both recovered from double bogeys to finish with two-under 70s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellow Englishmen Tyrrell Hatton and Luke Donald also made encouraging starts to sit one under alongside Scotland’s 2011 Bay Hill winner Martin Laird.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Across<\/span><\/span>\"Across<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Jon Rahm regained top spot in the world rankings with his third win of the year at February’s Genesis Invitational -7 J Rahm (Spa); -5 K Kitiyama (US), C Kirk (US), C Young (US); -4 A Shenk (US), S Scheffler (US), J Spieth (US), A Rai (Eng), X Schauffele (US), P Cantlay (US), R Fowler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}