On another tough day at Bay Hill Golf Club, Wyndham Clark’s biggest putt was for a double bogey.

The Denver native made a six on the 15th hole Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after hitting his tee shot out of bounds and his fourth shot in the green-side bunker.

Clark sits two shots back of leader Shane Lowery entering the third round Sunday.

But Clark, who led this tournament at the halfway mark last year before finishing second, made birdie on the next hole to rebound on his way to a second-round 71.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever fist pumped a double bogey,” Clark told reporters after. “I don’t know (if) that hole’s very tough. I was pissed off with the tee shot, and I knew it was important to kind of keep the momentum. Any shot is important. I don’t fist pump that much, but to me it just was more of like an internal thing, like, Let’s go,’ and gave me kind of some momentum for the last three holes.”

The Orlando course played tough for the second straight day. Only 18 golfers are under par after two rounds of the PGA Tour signature event.

“The tough thing out here is you’re going to hit some bad shots, maybe a water ball or in my case an out-of-bounds ball, but the tough thing is the greens are getting so firm and pretty borderline on unplayable, then you hit the shot back in play and you’re never done,” Clark said. “You could be 15 feet and blow it 6 feet by because it’s so fast. It’s just huge too, any time you get in trouble, try to minimize any mistakes.”

Lowry, playing alongside good friend Rory McIlroy, holed a 35-foot birdie putt on the 13th and closed with an 18-foot birdie to lead by two over Clark.

Lowry was at 8-under 136, the only player in the field to break 70 both days. He shared the 54-hole lead in 2024 with Scottie Scheffler.

“I think it’s my iron play is good, and conservative when it needs to be,” Lowry said in explaining why he enjoys a tough test. “I just like the grind of ‘pars are good,’ you know? There’s a lot of weeks out here where you shoot level par for nine holes, and you feel like you’re beating your head against the wall. Whereas weeks like this, level par after nine, you’re actually doing OK. You’re a run away from having a lovely day.

“I like the type of golf where any time you break 70 you feel like you’ve had a good day.”

The leaderboard is stacked with big names all within striking distance. Corey Connors and Collin Morikawa are three strokes back at 5-under and McIlroy is part of a trio at 4-under. Scheffler is tied for 12th at 1-under.

Xander Schauffele, playing in his first tournament since January, had back-to-back double bogeys and answered with three birdies in the next four holes. He wound up with a 71 and was 12 shots out of the lead, but the double major champion could claim a small victory by making his 58th consecutive cut dating to the 2022 Masters.

—The Associated Press contributed to this report