Graeme McDowell finishes second at the Arnold Palmer Invitational
Graeme McDowell recorded a runner-up position at the PGA Tour staged event of Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The 32-year-old Northern Irish professional golf player displayed an amazing performance and scored 8-under 280. He finished five strokes behind the leader, Tiger Woods.
"I let him get ahead of me early and he was very tough to get close to after that," McDowell said.
McDowell started the tournament on Thursday and scored 72 in the first round. Then, he improved his performance and played a tremendous bogey-free second round on Friday.
He cheered all the spectators by scoring 9-under 63, with the help of seven impressive birdies and an eagle in the second round at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida.
"Shooting 63 on a golf course like this is always a lot of fun," McDowell said. "It's a golf course that I feel like I can get it around".
On Saturday, he added two more birdies and one bogey on the leaderboard. He was tremendous throughout three days, but lost his momentum in the final round on Sunday.
He double-bogeyed on the very first hole and faced difficulty while scoring. Later, somehow he carded a birdie on the 3rd hole and an eagle on the 6th.
He added some good scores on the leaderboard. However, from the 9th hole to the 17th, he again displayed a mediocre performance and made four unimpressive bogeys.
Woods scored 70 and McDowell recorded 74 in the final round. McDowell lost all hopes of winning the event, after such a devastating performance.
Despite the worst performance, the Northern Irishman is happy to see the best scores of 63 at day-end.
He has received much applause from the spectators, after the completion of the tournament.
"But like I say, I feel like you learn more from those types of experiences than you do from shooting 63 at Bay Hill," he stated.
"There's not much to learn out there except that if you play great and hole some putts, you can go low," he added.
Now he is heading to Texas, to play another sensational event, the Shell Houston Open, from March 29 to April 1. Soon after it, he will also play the first major of the year, the Masters Tournament.
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