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Golf fans have seen over the years the challenge Bay Hill presents when the PGA Tour's best arrive each spring for the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Nor does the blueprint change much when the state's top amateurs come calling.

To win the 93rd Florida State Amateur crown this weekend, golfers will have to negotiate a layout that - except for seasonal differences - will have a similar look and feel as what Ernie Els won on in March.

"The FSGA likes to set up the course as similar as they can," said Brian Dorn, Bay Hill's director of golf. "The distances are going to be the same; we don't make the fairways wider for this event. It will be just as much of a test."

The South African golfer won the 2010 Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard for his second win at Bay Hill.

Els has 18 PGA TOUR wins and 44 international victories including three major titles. He has also twice earned the European Tour Order of Merit.

Voters comprised of Hall of Fame members, golf journalists, historians and dignitaries from around the globe will submit their ballots in July with a formal announcement to be made later this year.

Els will be joined on the 2011 ballot by the likes of Retief Goosen, Fred Couples, Davis Love III, Mark O'Meara, Darren Clarke, Sandy Lyle, Colin Montgomery and Ian Woosnam.

The World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place in the spring of 2011.

The Bay Hill renovation was conducted under the experienced eye of Palmer himself and the Arnold Palmer Design Company.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ernie Els survived a few nervous moments by making two clutch par putts to win the rain-delayed Arnold Palmer Invitational in a Monday finish for his second PGA Tour victory in a row after a two-year drought.

Final round play will be aired on The Golf Channel at 12 a.m. EST.

Ernie Els said he hopes to play “major championship-type golf” today when he takes a one-stroke lead into the final round of the 32nd Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard.

With the roll he’s on, the Big Easy seems capable of pulling it off. With the fellows in pursuit, he might need it, too.

Seeking to win back-to-back starts for the first time since 2003, Els continued his recent resurgence with a solid 3-under-par 69 at the breezy Bay Hill Club & Lodge and leads former British Open champion Ben Curtis by a shot at 10-under 206. It’s the 17th time the big South African has held at least a share of the 54-hole lead, and it’s the fifth time in his last seven rounds that he been at the top.

Pre-round adjustments are essential for professional golfers, but Joe Ogilvie took it to a new level Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard. His reward was a 10-shot improvement. Ogilvie shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 on Bay Hill’s Championship Course.

Just 25 minutes before his second-round tee time of 12:43 pm, Ogilvie retreated to the clubhouse and had his R9 irons bent 1-degree upright by assistant pro Josh Jackson. "It's not recommended doing something like that, but I needed to turn it around, and it worked," said Ogilvie, who carded the low round of the day and moved up 81 spots into a tie for 23rd at 2-under 142 after 36 holes.

“I wouldn’t mind winning again,” Jim Furyk said Saturday morning after he finished his third round in the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard.

The notion of winning might have sounded absurd since Furyk had already signed his scorecard more than two hours before the leaders were to tee off, but the former U.S. Open champion had just polished off a 6-under-par 66 on Bay Hill’s Championship Course. That enabled him to leapfrog dozens of fellow competitors and get within hailing distance of the top spot with today’s final round remaining.