At the height of his powers, few were as consistently competitive in the U.S. Open as Jason Day. In the mid-2010s, while racking up top-10 after top-10, he relished the fairways-and-greens test of golf’s toughest major. The grind for pars. The mental examination.
Friday at the Wells Fargo Championship might not have had the same stakes, but it presented a similar challenge.
For 5 ½ hours, players at TPC Potomac were drenched with a steady rain, turning what was already a difficult track into all they could handle. Among the early leaders, Day navigated that test the best, turning in a stout 67 to take a three-shot lead into the weekend.