ORLANDO, Fla. — Anyone who wandered in out of the rain to catch the tail end of Jason Day’s news conference on Saturday might have thought he was describing having to drive home in clothes that were soaked to his skin. Day’s discomfort was a theme he kept returning to, but it had nothing to do with the awful weather that turned Bay Hill Golf Club into a sodden sponge in the afternoon. He was forecasting an uncomfortable 24 hours because of his standing as the tournament’s 54-hole leader.
Day carded a two-under-par 70 for a two-stroke advantage, at 15 under, over Troy Merritt (67) Kevin Chappell (67) and Henrik Stenson (70) at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.