SI Golf's Bob Harig breaks down the top storylines from the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational from Bay Hill Golf Course.
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00:00 The Arnold Palmer Invitational this week at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando.
00:04 The fourth of eight signature events on the PGA Tour are already that far along
00:10 to these new specialty events that have small fields with a big purse of $20 million,
00:15 $4 million going to the winner. Only 69 players, but this event does have a 36-hole cut,
00:22 50 and ties, plus anyone within 10 of the lead, which means
00:26 very few people are going to be going home on the weekend. Among those in the field,
00:31 past champions Scotty Scheffler and Roy McIlroy. Among those not in the field,
00:36 past champion Terrell Hatton, who's now playing for Live Golf with John Rahm and Brooks Koepka
00:41 and Cam Smith and Bryce Nishambo. Those guys are all playing in Hong Kong this week,
00:45 their fourth event of the year. Another guy not in the Arnold Palmer field,
00:49 eight-time winner of the event Tiger Woods. Now, this is not a huge surprise or had maybe been
00:54 some hope he might come back to a place where he's had great, great success. The thinking now
00:59 is he might enter next week's Players' Championship, the PGA Tour's flagship tournament
01:04 headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Until then, another big tournament this week in Orlando.
01:09 Arnold Palmer typically means the Masters can't be far away,
01:13 only five weeks until the year's first major championship.