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So what happened at the PGA Championship on Friday?

Well, let’s see...Jason Day shot 65 with a bogey and a double. Robert Streb equaled the lowest round in major championship history at 63. Phil Mickelson hit his opening tee shot so far out of bounds it ended up in someone’s driveway. Jimmy Walker tied the low 36-hole mark to start the PGA Championship going 65-66. The PGA gave out the wrong pin sheet to the first group of the day. And Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy missed the cut.

Besides that, not much else happened on Friday at Baltusrol. Except that it rained in the morning, softening up the course for a full out assault. It was a day in which it was hard to keep up with the action.

Despite all that was going on, the loudest noise may have been made by the defending champion. Day, who only saw the golf course once before teeing off on Thursday, got off to a slow start, sitting at two-over for his first seven holes, thanks in large part to a double on the seventh. But when he hit the eighth tee, he seemed to find that gear he was in last year and for the first part of this season. He drove the ball with precision, flagged his iron shots and rolled his putts as if they were being laser guided.

Over a nine-hole stretch from eight through 16, he used just 26 shots.

“I kind of gave myself a little bit of a kick in the bum, especially with the double bogey on 7,” explained Day. “It was a bit of a mess there. With that said, being able to come back and birdie 8 and 9 really made things a lot better for me on the back side.”

That round was good, but Streb’s was two strokes better. Still, it may have been the quietest 63 in major championship history.

“I’m happy to join the club that seems to be ever-growing,” said Streb, who becomes the 30th player to reach that mark. Just a week and a half ago, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson were welcomed in when they posted the same number at the Open Championship.

Streb’s round leaves him tied atop the leaderboard with Jimmy Walker, who added a 66 to his opening 65.

At the other end of the leaderboard was Johnson, whose two-round total of 149 was better than just 10 other golfers. For the first time in 25 tournaments, the U.S. Open champion had the weekend off.

While Johnson’s game was pretty much a total system failure with all parts struggling, McIlroy was an example of extreme hot and cold. His woods and irons were solid but on the greens, he looked like the village smithy, clanging putt after putt – long ones, short ones and in between ones.

“Tee to green is good,” he sighed. “I just need to figure out what to do on the greens. I need to have a long hard think about that.”

One of the strangest incidents of the day came with the first group to tee off on the back nine. That was Colt Knost, Joe Summerhays and Yuta Ikeda, who were given incorrect pin sheets. The sheet said the flag was on the left but it was actually on the right, leading to bogeys by Knost and Ikeda.

So, shouldn’t he have just looked up and found the flag? Knost said he was 210 yards away and it was raining, which made it hard to see. He hit a five-wood into the hole and missed the green on the right. Instead of having a chip with lots of room, he was short-sided.

After his round, Knost sat one shot off the cutline until it moved a stroke and let him play the weekend and allowing the PGA of America to breath a sigh of relief. Kerry Haigh, the PGA’s chief championship officer, personally apologized to all three players after their round.

It was one of the more eventful days on this year’s major championship schedule and one that had a little bit of everything. Hard to believe it wasn’t even moving day.