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Red-hot Day leads BMW Championship by four

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Jason Day of Australia plays his shot from the fourth tee during the Second Round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club on September 18, 2015 in Lake Forest, Illinois

Chicago (AFP) - Australia's Jason Day was more than satisfied to polish off a 10-under par-61 on Friday, after flirting with a 59 in the weather-disrupted first round of the BMW Championship.

Day needed an eagle at his final hole, the par-four ninth at Conway Farms, to record golf's magic number, and it was looking unlikely when he hit his tee shot into the right rough moments before inclement weather halted play on Thursday evening.