Earlier this week, Jason Day made headlines when he mentioned that Malbon had “daring” plans for what he’ll put on at Augusta Nationwide. Time will inform what all of that has in retailer.
Maybe that fired him up, although. Day turned in an distinctive spherical on Friday at Bay Hill, taking pictures an 8-under 64. It marked his greatest spherical ever on the Arnold Palmer Invitational, in keeping with the PGA Tour Communications staff.
Jason Day (64) posts his career-low rating in 41 rounds on the Arnold Palmer Invitational introduced by Mastercard. He’s the primary participant to shoot 64 or higher at Bay Hill since 2021 (Keegan Bradley/64/R3).
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) March 7, 2025
It’s additionally Day’s lowest rating for the reason that opening spherical of The American Specific in mid-January, when he additionally fired an 8-under 64 at La Quinta Nation Membership. He went on to tie for third that week within the Coachella Valley.
No offense to La Quinta, however Bay Hill is exponentially more difficult, and but, unsurprisingly, Day was fairly humble about all of it. He famous that climate has been a little bit of an element — Thursday morning was robust for individuals who had early tee instances.
He recapped his day after his spherical on Friday:
It was good. We had a tricky day [on Thursday]. I believe the fellows teeing off in our morning wave in all probability obtained the brunt of the wind. That’s golf. Clearly you’re taking the nice with the unhealthy. All of it averages itself out any methods. But it surely’s good to have the ability to come out, get underneath par early, so that you’re not likely enthusiastic about the reduce line. Nobody desires to come back right here and miss a reduce. That’s simply, we’re all making an attempt to play our greatest and to offer myself like a great buffer after the eagle on 6, that was, I couldn’t take into consideration the reduce line anymore and simply begin specializing in taking part in some actually good pictures. Simply saved the momentum ahead, which was good, after which, yeah, issues, I didn’t actually take into consideration an excessive amount of, only a entire lot of time simply form of discovered the ball and hit the subsequent one and add ‘em up on the finish of the day, which was good. Very constructive day, which is nice. I did numerous work on my placing final week, I struggled with that this 12 months, some setup modifications with [coach Cole Swatton], simply had him come again on board, which was good. Some outdated feels there. Issues are wanting actually good proper now.
Day turned in his greatest efficiency of the season to this point and can fall asleep on Friday evening sitting among the many high 5. He jumped 40 spots on the leaderboard and went from presumably lacking the reduce to vying for a signature occasion title.
Securing a win the week earlier than The Gamers would undoubtedly increase his season to this point and provide him fairly the inflow of FedEx Cup factors.
