Earlier this week, Jason Day made headlines when he said that Malbon had “bold” plans for what he will wear at Augusta National. Time will tell what all of that has in store.
Perhaps that fired him up, though. Day turned in an exceptional round on Friday at Bay Hill, shooting an 8-under 64. It marked his best round ever at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, according to the PGA Tour Communications team.
Jason Day (64) posts his career-low score in 41 rounds at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. He is the first player to shoot 64 or better at Bay Hill since 2021 (Keegan Bradley/64/R3).
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) March 7, 2025
It’s also Day’s lowest score since the opening round of The American Express in mid-January, when he also fired an 8-under 64 at La Quinta Country Club. He went on to tie for third that week in the Coachella Valley.
No offense to La Quinta, but Bay Hill is exponentially more challenging, and yet, unsurprisingly, Day was pretty humble about it all. He noted that weather has been a bit of a factor — Thursday morning was tough for those who had early tee times.
He recapped his day after his round on Friday:
It was good. We had a tough day [on Thursday]. I think the guys teeing off in our morning wave probably got the brunt of the wind. That’s golf. Obviously you take the good with the bad. It all averages itself out any ways. But it’s nice to be able to come out, get under par early, so you’re not really thinking about the cut line. No one wants to come here and miss a cut. That’s just, we’re all trying to play our best and to give myself like a good buffer after the eagle on 6, that was, I could not think about the cut line anymore and just start focusing on playing some really good shots. Just kept the momentum forward, which was good, and then, yeah, things, I didn’t really think about too much, just a whole lot of time just kind of found the ball and hit the next one and add ‘em up at the end of the day, which was good. Very positive day, which is good. I did a lot of work on my putting last week, I struggled with that this year, some setup changes with [coach Cole Swatton], just had him come back on board, which was nice. Some old feels there. Things are looking really good right now.
Day turned in his best performance of the season so far and will go to sleep on Friday night sitting among the top five. He jumped 40 spots on the leaderboard and went from possibly missing the cut to vying for a signature event title.
Securing a win the week before The Players would undoubtedly boost his season to date and offer him quite the influx of FedEx Cup points.
