Jason Day owes Bubba Watson some mac and cheese

Bubba Watson was wrapping up his complaints to reporters about Plainfield Country Club (nothing about the venue for this week’s first FedEx Cup playoff game suited him except his tourney-leading score) when Jason Day pitched a softball to the two-time Masters winner.

“Was it an honor to play with Jason Day?” the PGA champ, who was next in line to field reporters’ queries about Thursday’s opening round of The Barclays, jokingly asked his playing partner.

“Jason Day is one of my favorite golfers of all time because his son has the best hair I’ve ever seen,” Watson quipped about Dash Day’s shoulder-length tresses. “He was at my house yesterday eating up all my macaroni and cheese, by the way. So you owe me for that.”

The good-natured banter apparently was a carry-over from the friendly atmosphere Watson, Day and Jordan Spieth enjoyed on the course.

“Especially when I was beating them,” Watson said about whether the marquee trio had fun.

“Obviously we were trying to play our best golf,” said Watson, who owned a share of the 18-hole lead with a 5-under 65. “But at the same time, we are all friends and we are all pulling for each other.”

Still, the course was not exactly laid out with Bubba Golf in mind. All those blind spots, starting with the approach shot on the first hole and the drive on No. 2, made it an uncomfortable track for Watson, who nevertheless carded seven birdies and two bogeys.

“Being a visual player ... I can’t see my landing and how I want to shape the balls,” said Watson, who bombed and gouged his way to a 5-under 31 on his outgoing nine, thanks to two straight birdies on Nos. 10 and 11 and three more on that side.

His first of two bogeys on his closing four holes came on the par-3 sixth.

“You could barely see part of the green, so it’s kind of a blind spot,” said Watson, who noted that “nothing” about the Donald Ross design fit his eye except the numbers on the board.

“We’ll take the scorecard all day,” he said.

Spieth, who may not have had as much fun as Watson and Day (68, despite a sore back that seemed to hamper him on a couple of drives), was another guy not keen on the Plainfield layout.

The reigning Masters and U.S. Open champion called his 74 the “worst round” he had played in years, and for sure it was his highest score in relation to par in 2015. His 75s at The Players Championship, Doral and Torrey Pines, and his 74 at the RBC Heritage were 3-over.

The current world No. 1, who will hand the top seed back to Rory McIlroy if he finishes below 14th, is not a big fan of Plainfield’s poa annua greens that he contended hindered his ability to spin golf balls.

“I like harder, firmer golf courses,” said Spieth, who ended his first round three shots south of the projected cut line. “I just have a tough time flying it all the way back to holes and trusting that, because I want to be below the hole and there’s just no way to do that on some of these.”

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