Aug. 16--If watching that brilliant Saturday play from Jason Day and Jordan Spieth did not get you fired up for the final round of the PGA Championship, Day's comments will.
The affable Aussie craving his first major championship will have to beat Spieth, who is vying for this third of the year. At 15 under, Day has a two-shot lead -- and is 3-up on Justin Rose, who won the 2013 U.S. Open.
"I feel like it's going to be an exciting finish," Day said. "I'm hoping they set the course up where you can attack it, and I think they've done a pretty good job of that this week.
"It is really going to be a lot of fun. Jordan might be holing putts on me. If he goes out and wins from him putting well, then he deserves it. But I'm going to give him a fight."
Day and Spieth will tee off at 1:45 p.m., one group ahead of Rose and Branden Grace, both at 12-under.
Lurking at 11 under is Martin Kaymer, who won the PGA Championship the last time it was played at Whistling Straits.
Spieth is the world's best putter, and his back-nine Saturday reflected that. But early in the round, he said, "I was at a point where I was not sure of where the ball was going to start off my putter face, and that's a really ugly feeling."
Once they started dropping, they never stopped. Spieth shot 30 on the back and 65 for the round.
Day has shot 68-67-66 to put himself in the driver's seat.
What will be his key Sunday?
"Really not trying to beat yourself," he said. "I think the hardest thing for a player is when they're trying to close, they kind of get in their own way. They start thinking to themselves: Is the shot too hard, is the shot too easy?
"A number of things can happen, especially on a final round of a major championship. I've done all the hard work right now to get into contention, to have this lead. So (Sunday) I just need to be patient with myself, need to make sure that I stay disciplined to my targets. It's all the boring stuff, really, that you guys don't want to hear. But it's really the honest truth that I'm trying to get out because I can't get in my own way."
