The PGA TOUR’s fourth Signature Event of 2025 led to a fantastic finish at Bay Hill on Sunday. In the end, Russell Henley ($8,800; 121 FPTS) emerged with his fifth career win on the PGA TOUR.
854 days in the making 🏆
Russell Henley is back in the winner's circle for his fifth TOUR victory @APInv! pic.twitter.com/pBfD1FWk1F
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 9, 2025
After opening the tournament with +5500 odds to win the tournament on DraftKings Sportsbook, Henley started the day in second place and played in the final group. He actually was one over par on the front nine and bogeyed No. 10 to move to two over for the day with eight holes remaining. He birdied No. 12 and No. 14 to get back to even-par for the round, and that led to this hole-out eagle on No. 16:
HENLEY HOLE-OUT!! 🦅
From 1 back to 1 ahead with one perfect chip.
📺 NBC pic.twitter.com/UZXUvwm4Hq
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 9, 2025
It was the fifth PGA TOUR career win for the 35-year-old from Georgia and his first win since the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship. Before breaking through for the victory, he had made the cut in all five of his events this season with top-10s at the Sony Open, the AT&T Pebble Beach and last week’s Cognizant Classic.
Henley chased down third-round leader Collin Morikawa ($9,800; 93 FPTS), who finished alone in second. Corey Conners ($7,800; 88.5 FPTS) finished third with Michael Kim ($7,600; 97.5 FPTS) in fourth. Early in the day, Keegan Bradley ($8,400; 97.5 FPTS) made a huge surge shooting an eight-under-par round to jump from T27 to T5.
Coming into the week, Henley was featured on DK Network. My colleague, Alex Hunter, had him as his One and Done pick for the week, and I also highlighted him in my cash game plays
He was owned in 16% of the entries in the PGA TOUR $1M SAND TRAP [$200K TO 1ST]. Morikawa was owned in 10.9% of entries while Conners was owned in 9.4% and Kim in 8.5% of entires. The top entry was from gforce9 who had Henley, Kim, Conners, Sepp Straka ($8,100; 96 FPTS), Shane Lowry ($8,200; 81 FPTS) and Justin Thomas ($9,400; 60.5 FPTS). Here’s what the top lineup looked like:
