SPRINGFIELD, New Jersey (Reuters) - Jason Day, playing after just one day of practice at Baltusrol, kept it simple in Thursday's first round of the PGA Championship, hitting fairways and greens and sinking enough putts to join the hunt.
World number one and defending champion Day, who found 17 greens in regulation, shot a two-under-par 68 and said the time away from the course might have been a blessing.
"If you practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you could be pretty tired with how hot it was," the 28-year-old Australian told reporters.
"It was in the mid to high 90s (35 Celsius).