Arnold Palmer must have loved looking down and seeing the Bryson DeChambeau long-drive show this week.

Palmer, who famously drove the green at the par-4 first hole in the final round of the 1960 U.S. Open en route to victory, lived to go for broke and his advice for competitors at the tournament bearing his name was to play boldly.

One day after DeChambeau dazzled fans with a 370-yard blast at the par-5, sixth hole at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, he crushed one even farther.

This time, DeChambeau took two deep breaths and smashed driver 377 yards. His ball cleared the water at the double-dogleg easily and bounced through the fairway into a fairway bunker. He had 88 yards left to the hole.

That was 50 yards longer than the previous longest drive on Sunday, a 327-yard poke by Brendan Steele. DeChambeau never hesitated to play aggressively despite being tied for the lead at the time.

“I knew that the wind was helping. It’s funny, the farther left you go, the more helping it was today,” he explained. “I knew that if I tried to go at the bunkers, it would, I would be hitting it into the wind. And so I said, ‘You know what, if I hit a draw, if I just hit a draw and I start it out and draw it far enough left it will get over.’ And certainly I was able to do that. And I hit it a little low, so I was not really sure if it was going to get over, but luckily I hit it good enough and had the right spin rate on it to get it over today.”

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Drive: 377 yards.
Distance to the pin: 88 yards.@B_DeChambeau does it again at No. 6.#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/HYSyDvQCMm

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Lee Westwood had the unenviable task of following DeChambeau’s blast and hit one 306 yards along a safer line. Westwood celebrated being dry off the tee by raising both arms to the sky, mimicking DeChambeau’s celebration on Saturday. As he walked up the fairway, Westwood knocked knuckles with DeChambeau. The Englishman still had 256 yards to the hole, or only 168 yards farther away than DeChambeau.

“I wanted to reintroduce myself when I got to the green,” Westwood cracked.

🤣🤣🤣 #APInv pic.twitter.com/YGe4yikEF0

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Architect Dick Wilson created a nerve-inducing risk-reward par-5, where competitors get to choose how much of the water they want to bite off. The farther left you aim, the shorter the approach shot. However, the sixth hole can bite back too.

A few groups earlier, Rory McIlroy, 7 under at the time and still in the thick of the trophy hunt, rinsed two tee shots in the water. The Northern Irishman is one of the best drivers of the ball in golf and he had smoked one 360 yards on Saturday. He had enough in the tank to nearly match DeChambeau, but under the gun on Sunday, he fired multiple blanks. McIlroy did hit his third tee shot 324 yards and stick his sixth shot close and salvaged a double bogey, but it essentially ended his hopes of becoming a two-time champ at Arnie’s place. He went on to shoot 76 and finish T-10.

Rory McIlroy hit two tee shots into the water at No. 6.

He managed to get up and down from 243 yards for double bogey. pic.twitter.com/9HG1BCPSZu

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As much as DeChambeau’s power game stole the show this week, he failed to fully take advantage of his prodigious drives. He came up short of the green with his second shot, just as he had the day before. But he pitched to 4 feet and converted for the birdie to keep pace with Westwood, and remain tied for the lead at 11 under.

DeChambeau never actually aimed for the sixth green during the tournament, which would have required a carry of 342 yards. But he recorded three birdies on the hole, taking advantage of his power and whipping the reduced crowds this week at Bay Hill into a frenzy. How’s this for a stat: of a total 7,352 drives hit on No. 6 in ShotLink era (2003-present), DeChambeau now owns the three longest drives on that hole (360, 370, and 377 yards), two of which he recorded this week (370 and 377 yards).

The sixth hole at Bay Hill showed once again why it is one of the coolest holes on the PGA Tour. It gave us a rollercoaster of emotions: from 12 eagles for the week to Victor Perez making an 11 on Saturday to DeChambeau’s thrilling smoke show. Arnie would’ve loved every bit of it.