Miami — Former world No1 Jason Day is burning to get back to the top of the rankings and he made a huge leap towards that with a two-stroke victory at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina on Sunday. Day had an awful day of wayward driving and squandered a three-shot lead on the back nine with consecutive bogeys, before rising to the occasion and hitting one of the best clutch shots of his life. After a birdie at the par-four 16th, he took aim at the par-three 17th with a seven-iron from 230 yards and launched his ball 142 feet, as high as a 14-storey building, into the air. It landed about 40 feet short of the pin and finally clattered against the bottom of the flag stick on the fifth bounce. Day was unlucky not to make a hole-in-one, but the stick also saved his ball from rolling off the back of the green. "When I hit it, it was on a cracking line, it was beautiful," the Australian said after securing his 12th PGA Tour victory. "And then it just had this massive bounce, h...
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