Brandt Snedeker gets two lucky bounces off rocks at Bay Hill

Winning on the PGA Tour no doubt takes skill, but it also takes getting some things to unexpectedly go your way.

If Brandt Snedeker winds up winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational for his second win of 2015, he’ll probably look back on the break he got on No. 18 on Thursday as one that saved his week.

Snedeker found the fairway with his tee shot at the trying closing hole at Bay Hill in Orlando, leaving himself a clean look at the green mostly guarded by water. The ball didn’t fly as far as it needed and landed in the rocks just short of the green, precariously bouncing in the air. It then struck another rock and bounded toward the green, winding up just 6 feet from the hole.

Turns out, Snedeker was playing with a new set of irons, putting a set of Bridgestone Golf J715s in the bag.

“I wanted to put them in for Augusta, I wanted to make sure I had tried them before then,” Snedeker said. “They were awesome. Best I hit my irons all year long.”

He wasn’t quite dialed in on that one approach, but was otherwise brilliant. The Pebble Beach winner from earlier this year shot 4-under 68 on Thursday to trail leader Morgan Hoffmann by two heading into Round 2.

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