Spieth began his second round with back-to-back bogeys but managed to steady himself, picking up four birdies and one more bogey to post a 71.

After his round, Spieth spoke to reporters about how he managed to keep things on track despite the tough start.

“I thought I had a chance to go off the rails after No. 2 today,” Spieth admitted.

“I mean, just two horrendous breaks in a row to start. And it’s a course made up of horrendous breaks. You try not to front load them on the first two holes. You know it’s going to happen. But I’m 2-over and outside the number for the weekend when I was looking, feeling pretty good about the way I’ve been playing and stuff.

“And you just can’t force anything, so it’s like you don’t want to fall too far behind because you can’t really make it up very easily if you have to. I thought I did a really good job of staying in there, setting a goal for where I wanted to be through — I wanted to get, you know, set like four or five-hole goals out there.”

“So I stayed focused and said, forget about everything else except for the next hole and how to play the next three 1-under. Then I accomplished my goal. I wanted to get — at one point it was to try to get to three by 18 fairway. And I got three and I was in 18 fairway. And I hit a terrible putt or I could have stolen another one.“

Jordan Spieth is playing better than he is scoring at Bay Hill

Spieth went on to say that he feels his play hasn’t been fully reflected in his scores so far this week.

“All in all, I feel like I’m playing better than I’m scoring here,” Spieth insisted.

“Some of that is a reflection on leaving putts short. Some of that is like I had a couple pretty bad plug lies that were a yard from being a good look for birdie, and I couldn’t even get the bunker shot where the ball would have gone had it flown another yard.

“That stuff happens out here probably more than anywhere else on a pretty stressful course. And I was happy to play the last 16 holes 3-under.

He is ranked 15th in strokes gained approach this week, while he ranked outside the top 37 in all of the other key statistical categories.

So while he feels like he’s playing well, the stats say otherwise. At one-under-par heading into the weekend, perhaps Jordan Spieth is exactly where he should be after two rounds at Bay Hill.