Watson claimed his 11th career US PGA Tour title, all of them coming in the past eight years. It’s also his second win this season, and his second career World Golf Championships victory.
An impromptu lesson earlier this week with Brad Faxon, one of the best putters on tour during his career, may have given McIlroy an answer he was searching for.
Installed as the 8-1 favourite to win the Masters next month, Tiger Woods exhibited a potpourri of strokes during Thursday’s opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to validate the odds-makers’ growing confidence in him.