Jordan Spieth is a whopping 12 shots adrift of the Arnold Palmer Invitational leader, Daniel Berger, with 36 holes left to play at Bay Hill.
Spieth is working extremely hard to rediscover his best form in 2026, having not won on the PGA Tour since April 2022.
However, he has a lot of work to do if he is to end that winless run at Bay Hill this week.
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The former world number one has shot rounds of 72 and 71 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week.
Spieth admitted he could have ‘gone off the rails’ at Bay Hill on Friday after experiencing some terrible breaks early on.
However, he managed to golf his ball well enough to make the cut in the end.
That said, he is still sitting 12 shots adrift of Berger at the halfway point of the tournament.
Jordan Spieth suggests if he still has a chance of winning Bay Hill
The man from Dallas, Texas, has a lot of ground to make up over the weekend in Orlando.
Spieth was asked by reporters on Friday if there is any way that he could still win the tournament come Sunday.
“I think if you can be — well, if there’s only one guy, then you never know,“ he said.
“But if there’s, if you’re within, say if you’re within four of the next two guys, you know, ideally you’re within five of the leader.
“So I think the course is playing the same or harder than yesterday. So hopefully scores come down a little bit, and you just have a group of guys that are you know, 5-, 6-under is second place and maybe the leader is at 8 or something like that.
“But when you’re ahead, it’s one of those, I can play to the center of greens, which is the way you’re supposed to play anyways. So if he’s in control of the ball, putting it nicely inside of six, seven feet, you know, he may not drop any.
“They do give you, if you hit the fairway on 12, and the fairway on 4, they give you, you get a few greenside opportunity up-and-downs for birdie.
“But there’s enough — I don’t know how many courses it’s like where, if you miss the fairway, on most of the holes it feels like it’s almost a full-shot penalty. So I guess the reason I’m saying that is because if the wind picks up and it continues to firm out, then anybody’s in it that’s under par.“
Jordan Spieth describes the best shot he has hit at Bay Hill this week
Spieth found the green in two from the bunker on the par-five 16th hole on Friday.
And he was asked by one reporter to explain how he went about pulling the shot off.
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“I hit a hybrid out of the bunker, yeah,“ Spieth said.
“That was one of my better shots I remember hitting in a long time.
“Yeah, it was 231 into the fan off the left. I hit a hybrid.
“I was trying to hit it on the right half of the green, but I got a bit fortunate, it drew a little bit and ended up 10 feet away.“
Spieth unfortunately missed his putt for eagle, but all in all, he will be happy with the way in which he battled back from a poor start to his second round at Bay Hill on Friday.
The 32-year-old from Dallas will probably now need to shoot two 67s at worst, in order to have a chance of winning the tournament on Sunday.
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