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Sunday 23 March 2003PGA TourYear in Review

Woods wins Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires

Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida · Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 March 2003 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 37 on the PGA Tour · purse $4,500,000 USD · Cooper Tires

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 02 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R131°/23°C · wind 20 km/h S, gusts 48 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R228°/21°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 46 · 9.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R327°/19°C · wind 10 km/h W, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R419°/16°C · wind 12 km/h WNW, gusts 34 · 6.6 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

, 79 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires

Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Tiger Woods

269Total
−19To par
11 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

It was a joke. I mean, just every single tee shot hurt because my abs were obviously sore from last night and I continued on while I was playing today.

Tiger Woods, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 23 March 2003. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

the problem is, it's so easy to check in to a hospital, but getting out is the hard part, you know.

Tiger Woods, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 23 March 2003. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

When he has to just bear down and make par, when he's got a seven- or eight-shot lead, he's not going to throw up all over himself.

Brad Faxon, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 23 March 2003. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Tiger Woods70 · 65 · 66 · 68269−19
T2Kirk Triplett73 · 69 · 68 · 70280−8
T2Kenny Perry72 · 68 · 69 · 71280−8
T2Stewart Cink69 · 69 · 70 · 72280−8
T2Brad Faxon70 · 71 · 65 · 74280−8
6Aaron Baddeley69 · 70 · 70 · 72281−7
T7J.L. Lewis69 · 73 · 73 · 67282−6
T7Jeff Sluman75 · 69 · 68 · 70282−6
T7Jerry Kelly76 · 66 · 70 · 70282−6
T10Jeff Brehaut75 · 70 · 69 · 69283−5
T10Ty Tryon73 · 67 · 74 · 69283−5
T10Steve Flesch72 · 72 · 68 · 71283−5
T10Billy Andrade72 · 71 · 69 · 71283−5
T10Pat Perez74 · 69 · 69 · 71283−5
T10Jonathan Kaye69 · 70 · 73 · 71283−5
T10Ben Crane70 · 73 · 68 · 72283−5
T10Stephen Ames73 · 70 · 66 · 74283−5
The golfer

born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 27 that week; tour wins to date: 37; majors to date: 8; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table).

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