Russell Henley's chip-in eagle beats Collin Morikawa at Bay Hill - ESPN

ORLANDO, Fla. — Russell Henley delivered a late charge that would have made Arnold Palmer proud, capped off by chipping in for eagle on the 16th hole to rally with a 2-under 70 at Bay Hill on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career.

Henley trailed Collin Morikawa by three shots with five holes to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational when it all changed with a pair of two-shot swings.

Morikawa missed the green on the par-3 14th hole and took bogey, while Henley hit his tee shot to just inside 10 feet for birdie, cutting the deficit to one shot. Nothing was more stunning than the par-5 16th hole, however.

Morikawa laid up from a fairway bunker and hit wedge to 18 feet. Henley went through the green to thick rough and had to chip from more than 50 feet away down the slope to a front pin on a green that was yellow, looking as though it barely had any grass.

It was racing toward the hole when it smacked into the pin and dropped for eagle, giving him the lead for the first time all day when Morikawa failed to convert his birdie putt.

Henley finished with two pars and Morikawa, who closed with a 72, couldn't catch him.

«I was just so nervous. I can't breathe right now,» Henley told NBC off the 18th green. «It's so hard and difficult around this place. I just tried to stay really tough this week.»

He made it tough on himself at times, particularly when he made a mess of both par-5s on the front nine to take bogey on each of them, and then starting the back nine with a bogey from the fairway.

But the 35-year-old from Georgia made up for it in a big way, particularly the chip-in for eagle that he called a good break. It's likely the ball would have run some 10 feet by the hole, if not run off the green. Breaks like that are