ORLANDO – Not even 48 hours removed from the biggest moment of his career, a one-stroke victory over Rickie Fowler and Brooks Koepka at The Honda Classic, Keith Mitchell spoke to the media at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard on Tuesday.

His congratulatory text messages, he said, went over 1,000. This will be his first TOUR start at Bay Hill, where years ago he played with Patrick Cantlay as a junior. He just might give his new Honda to his mom. Oh, and the kerfuffle over an ill-chosen Palm Beach Post headline?

Mitchell wasn’t bothered.

“I definitely didn't take any negative light to it,” he said. “A lot of my friends and family were texting me about it. The context that it was written, it sounds like was in good light and that's all that matters. I've probably said things a hundred times that came off the wrong way.”

Mitchell drained a 15 ½-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win The Honda Classic, his first title on the PGA TOUR, on Sunday. Monday morning’s Palm Beach Post featured a large photo of a beaming Mitchell with the trophy. The headline: NO-NAME CHAMPION.

The newspaper apologized almost immediately, posting a story on its website Monday morning. Headline: Palm Beach Post Sports Editor: We blew the headline on Keith Mitchell’s victory.

Nick Pugliese wrote, in part:

Those of us in the media know that headline writing is a craft. The boldest words on the biggest events take nuance, creativity and a special touch.

Sort of like draining a 15-foot putt on the 18th green to win the Honda Classic.

While putting together our coverage of Sunday’s final round, topped by the story of Keith Mitchell winning his first PGA Tour event, The Post lined up to write Monday morning’s banner headline for the newspaper’s Sports section — and missed the cup by 10 feet.

Readers let us have it via email, phone calls and social media: “Derogatory,” “Awful,” “Disrespectful,” “Tacky,” and “Very disappointed in The Post.” And, those were the nicer comments.

Mitchell, conversely, took the headline in context; he was the one who first mentioned the words “no-name.” After winning Sunday, he’d said in his press conference that another media outlet had called him a no-name even before the tournament ended, and he had used it as fuel. He knew that the Post, in its headline for Monday’s paper, was trying to play off his own comments.

“Not really,” he said, when asked if he took offense. “It was definitely a part of me winning; (the underdog mentality) definitely helped me winning. I just kind of used it as a potential to keep playing well to hopefully one day my name might be on the headline and it will be familiar.”

With the depth of talent on the PGA TOUR, he added, “a no-name wins every year.” And next to Fowler and Koepka, he really was relatively unknown.

“We had two heavyweights,” Mitchell said, “and I guess I was the underdog.”