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Sunday 19 March 2000PGA TourYear in Review
Woods wins Bay Hill Invitational
Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida · Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 March 2000 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 18 on the PGA Tour · purse $3,000,000 USD
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 57 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 61° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/19°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 48 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/18°C · wind 13 km/h W, gusts 27 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R327°/16°C · wind 24 km/h ENE, gusts 45 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/19°C · wind 26 km/h E, gusts 49 · 2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Davis Love III USA · 274Started two behind and never got closer; two pairs of back-to-back bogeys, a ball in the water at the 3rd and no birdies on the par 5s, closing with 72 including a birdie at the last ASAP Sports interview transcript: Davis Love III, 2000-03-19; Golf Today: Woods cruises to third win of year
119 started, 78 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
Bay Hill Invitational
Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tiger Woods
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
19 March 2000
My bad shots aren't that bad anymore. My bad shots are in the first cut of rough, not two fairways over.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
19 March 2000
You know, you get down 3, 4, 5 to Tiger, you're just got going to win plain and simple.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
19 March 2000
You know, just one of these days I need to put four together against him.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 69 · 64 · 67 · 70 | 270 | −18 |
| 2 | Davis Love III | 72 · 67 · 63 · 72 | 274 | −14 |
| 3 | Skip Kendall | 70 · 67 · 71 · 67 | 275 | −13 |
| T4 | Loren Roberts | 71 · 69 · 70 · 67 | 277 | −11 |
| T4 | Neal Lancaster | 70 · 68 · 69 · 70 | 277 | −11 |
| 6 | Stewart Cink | 71 · 67 · 70 · 70 | 278 | −10 |
| T7 | Jay Williamson | 72 · 70 · 69 · 68 | 279 | −9 |
| T7 | Mike Weir | 70 · 64 · 72 · 73 | 279 | −9 |
| 9 | Woody Austin | 71 · 67 · 71 · 71 | 280 | −8 |
| T10 | Brandel Chamblee | 76 · 68 · 68 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Billy Mayfair | 71 · 69 · 69 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Paul Goydos | 69 · 69 · 72 · 71 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Tim Herron | 72 · 71 · 67 · 71 | 281 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 18; majors to date: 2; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table (Bay Hill Invitational, week 11 of 2000)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet