Alright folks, let me tell you about the journey yesterday trying to wrangle those Arnold Palmer final scores. Didn’t seem complicated, right? Just grab the numbers and post ’em. Oh boy. Started simple, like I always do.
I cracked open my browser, heading straight for the usual sports spots – the big official ones, you know? Figured finding the Arnold Palmer Invitational 2022 leaderboard would be a piece of cake. Clicked around, navigated menus… and bam, hit the first snag. Either the layout was totally different from last time, throwing my usual path off, or it felt like the specific leaderboard was buried way deeper than it should be. Annoying!
The Extraction Headache
Finally spotted the scores. Looked messy, like they always do on these sites. Names, scores, positions, all jammed together. Couldn’t just copy-paste cleanly into my notes. Started manually typing Bryson DeChambeau and his -72 total, then Hatton’s -71… but got about three names in and thought, “Nope, this is dumb. Bound to make typos.”
Tried my old trick: View Page Source. Scrolled through a mountain of messy code – HTML, CSS, JavaScript spaghetti. Hunting for the actual player scores felt like digging for needles in a digital haystack. Found some rows that looked promising, but the formatting was chaotic. Numbers weren’t sitting next to names cleanly. Sometimes a player’s total was on one line, and their final round score was somewhere else entirely. Super frustrating.
Okay, time for a spreadsheet. Opened up Google Sheets. Started the manual slog:
- Player: Paste name…
- Position: Type the rank…
- Total Score: Punch in the numbers…
- Final Round: Add that one too…
Had to constantly switch tabs, double-check I was copying the right number next to the right player. Felt like forever. Saw Viktor Hovland sneaking into that T2 spot with Hatton, reminded me how wild that finish was.
Cleaning Up the Mess
Got all the top finishers in my sheet. Looked okay, but messy. Needed to make it readable:
- Sorted everyone by their position, 1, T2, T4, etc.
- Added bold for the champ (Scheffler) and the top ties.
- Made sure the “To Par” column showed negatives properly.
Did a final check: Clicked back to my browser source, scanned down the list against my sheet. Name by name, score by score. Spot-checked guys in the middle like Rory McIlroy at T13 and lower down. Found one mismatch (of course!) – a typo I made typing Will Zalatoris’s score. Fixed it. Took longer than actually typing the scores!
Getting It Out There
Now for the post. Opened my blog editor. Pasted the clean table in. Added a quick intro: “For those looking for the official Arnold Palmer Invitational 2022 results…” Short and sweet. Published it. Let out a sigh. All that just to present a simple list clearly? Felt ridiculous.
Checked the post live. The table looked clean, names easy to spot, scores clear. Could finally see the big picture: Scheffler winning at -5, that four-way tie right behind him. Mission accomplished, but man, finding championship results should be way easier than this circus. Still, got it done. Hope someone finds it useful!
