High numbers catch up with Adam Scott at Arnold Palmer Invitational

Adam Scott watches his tee shot at No. 9 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge. ( Tracy Wilcox )You can only dance with the devil for so long before you get burned.

Throughout the Florida swing, Adam Scott has flirted with disaster multiple times, but has twice found a way to recover on his way to wins at the Honda Classic and the WGC-Cadillac Championship.

That’s likely to come to an end this week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

“Double and triples and quads are catching up with me,” Scott said after his third round at Bay Hill Saturday. Scott triple-bogeyed 18 to end his round, a mistake that dropped him from 9 under, which would have been been T-7, to 6 under…