Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
"You can’t ignore it. You got to know where you’re at and you know who is there and just embrace the whole situation, I guess," Kitayama said after a final two hours of pure theater for his first PGA Tour win.
He got the result he desperately wanted in a fashion he never imagined.
First came the wild tee shot that sailed out-of-bounds on the ninth hole that led to triple bogey and let an All-Star cast — Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton and Harris English — back into the tournament.
And then the 30-year-old Californian, who has played on 11 tours around the world to hone is game, delivered the winner.
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