With second round play in-progress Kuchar and Steele finished theirs rounds at -12 under par while OWGR #1 Jason Day finished at -7 under par five strokes off the lead. Before Jason Day teed off Thursday on his home course, Dustin Johnson had already posted his best score in 31 rounds at the Memorial, an 8-under 64. But Day remembered the advice he received earlier this week from tournament host Jack Nicklaus: Stay patient and play within yourself. Day went out and posted his best score in 23 rounds at Muirfield Village, a 6-under 66. “I'm pleased because usually I come into this event and start pretty
poorly, maybe put a little too much pressure on myself,” he said. “It is
my home course, and you want to play well, and you want to win this
tournament because of Mr. Nicklaus and what he's done with the golf
tournament and the golf course, as well. A lot of history behind this.” Day can join Tiger Woods as the only players to win at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill and Nicklaus’s Memorial in the same year. Woods accomplished the feat four times. Day desperately wanted to win The Players, which he did three
weeks ago for his third title of the season, and he’s trying to do the
same at the Memorial. The first hurdle is out of the way. He is off to a good start, and
with an early tee time on Friday, Day has a chance to give Johnson a
number to look at when he tees off in the afternoon. While Muirfield Village is his home course, but Day’s best finish at the Memorial is a T-27 in 2009. “I don't know, I just sucked,” Day said, when asked to explain his
poor record. “To be honest, I would love to go, ‘Yeah, this is it.’ I
had distractions at home, or the course wasn't that great, or I had a
bad draw, or whatever, but it's not. I just played terrible and kept on
playing terrible for a good period of time.” Which player has the advantage moving into Round 3 on Saturday? Share our picks with the Pro Golf Tour:
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