Jason Day

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Jason Day
— Golfer —

Photographed in April 2011
Personal information
Nickname J.D., Jaydee, Jay Day
Born (1987-11-12) 12 November 1987
Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)[1]
Weight 88.5 kg (195 lb; 13.94 st)
Nationality  Australia
Residence Forest Lake, Queensland, Australia[2]
Westerville, Ohio, U.S.[3]
Spouse Ellie Harvey (m. 2009)
Children 2
Career
Turned professional 2006
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
Professional wins 14
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 9
European Tour 2
Web.com Tour 1
Other 4
Best results in major championships
(wins: 1)
Masters Tournament T2: 2011
U.S. Open 2nd/T2: 2011, 2013
The Open Championship T4: 2015
PGA Championship Won: 2015

Jason Day (born 12 November 1987) is an Australian professional golfer and PGA Tour member. He is the current World Number 1 in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015 . Day first broke into the world's top ten in June 2011, rising to world number nine after his runner-up finish at the U.S. Open.[4] In February 2014, Day won his first WGC title, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and would win it for a second time in 2016. With his 2016 win, he joined the elite company of Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy as the only multiple winners of the WGC Match Play. He went on to win his first major tournament at the 2015 PGA Championship, scoring a record 20 strokes under par and rising to number three in the world rankings.

Early life

Day was born in Beaudesert, Queensland.[1] His father, Alvin, was Australian[5] and his mother, Dening, was born in the Philippines and moved to Australia in the early 1980s.[6] He has two siblings, Yanna and Kim.[5][7] His father took him to Beaudesert Golf Club and enrolled him as a junior member just past his sixth birthday. He was allowed to play six holes a day as a junior. At the age of eight his family moved to Rockhampton, and during this period he began to win events in the surrounding districts. Alvin Day died of stomach cancer when Jason was 12.[5]

Day's mother sent him to Kooralbyn International School, which had a golf course attached. Later he went to Hills International College, where they have a golf academy,[8] at the behest of his coach, Col Swatton, who had moved there when Kooralbyn school closed down. Day borrowed a book about Tiger Woods from his roommate, and it inspired him to improve his golf by practising in the early morning, at lunch-time and in the evening. He used the book's reports of Woods' scores as his benchmark for improvement and as a reachable standard. His first big win was at the age of 13 in a 2000 Australian Masters junior event on the Gold Coast, where he won with scores of 87, 78, 76 and 76.[9]

Amateur career

As an amateur, Day was twice awarded the Australian Junior Order of Merit. He finished seventh and was the leading amateur at the Queensland Open. Day won the Australian Boys' Amateur in 2004. His amateur success extended to the United States, where he won the Boys 15–17 division at the 2004 Callaway World Junior Championship and was runner-up in the 2005 Porter Cup.[10] He was a member of the Golf Australia National Squad.

Professional career

2006–10: Early career

Day turned professional in July 2006 after winning the Green Jacket at the NEC Master of the Amateurs, signing with TaylorMade and Adidas[11] and immediately began playing PGA Tour events, principally through sponsors' exemptions. He made the cut in five of his first six PGA Tour events as a pro with a best finish of eleventh at the Reno-Tahoe Open and with official winnings of over $160,000. He entered PGA Tour qualifying, or Q-School. Placed in the second of three rounds, he tied for first in his section of the second round, advancing to the Q-School finals. However, in the six-round finals he played poorly, shooting fifteen shots higher than the score needed to qualify. Accordingly, he failed to earn his 2007 PGA Tour card but earned conditional status on the Nationwide Tour for 2007.[12]

Day won his first Nationwide Tour event in July 2007 at the Legend Financial Group Classic, becoming the youngest man to win on any of the PGA Tour's three tours.[13] The win jumped him to eighth on the Nationwide Tour's money list. He ended up finishing 5th on the money list to earn his PGA Tour card for 2008. He had a mediocre season, but had conditional status for 2009. A second-place finish at the Puerto Rico Open helped Day retain his card for 2010, and he finished 69th in the money list.[14]

In May 2010, he became the youngest Australian to win a PGA Tour event, winning the HP Byron Nelson Championship.[15] Day gained entry into his first ever major championship at the 2010 Open Championship after Greg Norman withdrew. Day went on to make the cut and finish in a tie for 60th place. In August 2010, Day made his first appearance at the PGA Championship, where a 66 on Saturday helped him to finish seven-under-par for the tournament and earn his first top-10 in a major. This run of form continued during the FedEx Cup playoff season, where Day enjoyed top-five finishes at the first two playoff events to qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship. He would go on to finish T17 at East Lake Golf Club and ended the 2010 season ranked 21st on the PGA Tour money list.[14]

2011–14: Contending in majors

At the 2011 Masters Tournament, Day birdied the last two holes, but came up two strokes short of eventual winner Charl Schwartzel. Day tied for second with Adam Scott and at −12 set the Masters record for the lowest score by a first-time participant. This was his best performance in a major championship, and throughout the final round Day was tied for the lead on a number of occasions before eventually finishing in a tie for second after Schwartzel made four consecutive birdies to win the tournament.[16]

In June 2011, Day participated at Congressional for the 2011 U.S. Open, his maiden appearance in a U.S. Open. Following his successful run at the Masters, Day achieved consecutive second-place finishes in the majors, this time finishing alone in second, some eight strokes behind runaway leader Rory McIlroy. He shot the equal lowest round of the week on Saturday, a 65, to jump up the leaderboard into a tie for third after round three. On Sunday, although he did not challenge for the lead, he was the best of the rest of the field as the Open was dominated by wire-to-wire winner McIlroy.[17]

As a result of his major performances, Day moved into the Official World Golf Ranking top-10 for the first time in his career at ninth.[4] Despite not winning a tournament during 2011, Day ended the season ranked 9th on the PGA Tour money list. He contended in a major once again at the 2013 Masters Tournament when he shot rounds of 70 and 68 to take a one-shot lead over Fred Couples going to the weekend. In the third round, Day was tied for the lead through 16 holes but bogeyed the last two holes to shoot a 73 and finish two shots behind Brandt Snedeker and Ángel Cabrera. During the final round, Day got off to a quick start by going birdie-eagle to take a one-shot lead. Day would later go on to birdie 13, 14, and 15 to take a one-shot lead with three holes to play. However, he bogeyed 16 and 17 and just missed a birdie putt at 18 that would have tied the lead. He shot a 70 and finished two shots back in third place behind Adam Scott, and Cabrera.[18]

Day finished as a runner-up for the third time in a major championship at the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club. He finished in a tie for second alongside Phil Mickelson, two strokes behind Justin Rose. Day tied the lead with a birdie at the 10th, but bogeys at 11, 14, and 18 would prevent him from winning his first major championship. It was the second time in his career Day had finished as a runner-up at the U.S. Open, and Day is also the only player in 2013 to hold a lead on the back nine Sunday at both majors. He tied for the lowest cumulative score in all four majors in 2013, with fellow Australian Adam Scott at +2.[19]

In February 2014, Day won his first World Golf Championship event, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, after a final in which Victor Dubuisson won the last two holes to tie, then twice scrambled halves after missing greens at the extra holes before Day finally secured victory. The win lifted Day to fourth in the world rankings.[20]

2015: Major champion and World #1

In February 2015, Day won his third PGA Tour event and his seventh title as a pro, winning the Farmers Insurance Open with a score of 279 (−9) after prevailing in a four-way playoff over Harris English, J.B. Holmes and Scott Stallings. He won at the second hole with a par while Holmes made bogey, after English and Stallings were eliminated at the first hole.[21] The victory lifted Day back to fourth in the Official World Golf Ranking.[22]

During the second round of the 2015 U.S. Open, Day collapsed on his 18th hole, the 9th hole on the course, having started the day on the 10th. He was very slow to get back up and was shaking and wobbly. It was later revealed that this was due to vertigo, a diagnosis Day had received from his doctor a month prior. However, the very next day, when he wasn't even sure if he would play, Day ended the third round tied for the lead.[23] He finished the tournament tied for 9th. At the 2015 Open Championship at St Andrews, Day entered the final round as one of the 54-hole co-leaders and shot a bogey-free 70 to finish at 14-under-par and one stroke outside of the 3-way playoff. He had a putt for birdie on the 72nd hole to join the playoff but left it inches short. Day's tie for fourth, however, was his best finish at the Open Championship and was the sixth time he had finished in the top 5 of a major without winning one.[24]

The following week at the RBC Canadian Open in Oakville, Canada, Day outlasted Bubba Watson and hometown favorite David Hearn to win the tournament, his second tour victory of the season and fourth overall. He made birdies on the last three holes in the final round to take a one-stroke victory.[25] At the next major championship, and the final one of the season, the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Day went on to play a five-under-par final round and prevented Jordan Spieth from winning a third major championship that season, although Spieth did dethrone Rory McIlroy to become the No. 1 ranked PGA player. Jason Day also set a new record that day as the first player to finish at 20-under-par in a major.[26][27]

Day's hot streak continued with wins in The Barclays and the BMW Championship, two of the first three events in the FedEx Cup playoffs. As a result of the BMW Championship win, on 20 September 2015, Day gained the world number 1 ranking for the first time.[28] Day entered the Tour Championship as the FedEx Cup leader, but he finished tied for tenth. Jordan Spieth would win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup as well as retaking the number one world ranking.[29]

2016

After a missed cut in the defence of his Farmers Insurance Open title, Day claimed his first win of the year and eighth overall on the PGA Tour at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he beat Kevin Chappell by one shot.[30] Day's victory was wire-to-wire having shot all four rounds under par (66-65-70-70) to finish with a −17 total. He birdied the 17th hole during the final round and had to get up and down from the bunker on the 72nd hole to hold on for the win. Day rose one place in the world rankings to number two, overtaking Rory McIlroy.

Just a week later, Day was in the winner's circle again at the WGC-Dell Match Play. He overtook Jordan Spieth to reach world No. 1 with his progression through to the semi-finals[31] before beating Louis Oosthuizen 5 & 4 in the final in Austin, Texas for his ninth PGA Tour win.[32]

Personal life

Day married Ellie Harvey (of Lucas, Ohio), in 2009.[3][33] The couple live in Westerville, Ohio. The couple have one son, Dash, born in 2012, and a daughter, Lucy, born on 11 November 2015.[34] On 17 December 2015, while watching a Cleveland Cavaliers game against Oklahoma City Thunder at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ellie sustained injuries after Cavaliers player LeBron James collided with her while attempting to retrieve a loose ball. She exited the arena in a stretcher with her head immobilized and was admitted to a nearby hospital.[35]

He had previously lived in Orlando, Florida, and Fort Worth, Texas.[36]

In November 2013, eight of Day's relatives in the Philippines, including his grandmother, died during Typhoon Haiyan.[37]

Recognition

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

Professional wins (14)

PGA Tour wins (9)

Legend
Major championships (1)
World Golf Championships (2)
FedEx Cup playoff event (2)
Other PGA Tour (4)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin
of victory		Runner(s)-up
1 23 May 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship 66-65-67-72=270 −10 2 strokes United States Blake Adams, United States Brian Gay,
United States Jeff Overton
2 23 Feb 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship 23 holes France Victor Dubuisson
3 8 Feb 2015 Farmers Insurance Open 73-65-71-70=279 −9 Playoff United States Harris English, United States J. B. Holmes
United States Scott Stallings
4 26 Jul 2015 RBC Canadian Open 68-66-69-68=271 −17 1 stroke United States Bubba Watson
5 16 Aug 2015 PGA Championship 68-67-66-67=268 −20 3 strokes United States Jordan Spieth
6 30 Aug 2015 The Barclays 68-68-63-62=261 −19 6 strokes Sweden Henrik Stenson
7 20 Sep 2015 BMW Championship 61-63-69-69=262 −22 6 strokes United States Daniel Berger
8 20 Mar 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational 66-65-70-70=271 −17 1 stroke United States Kevin Chappell
9 27 Mar 2016 WGC-Dell Match Play (2) 5 & 4 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen

PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2015 Farmers Insurance Open United States Harris English, United States J. B. Holmes,
United States Scott Stallings		 Won with par on second extra hole
English and Stallings eliminated with birdie on first hole

Nationwide Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 8 Jul 2007 Legend Financial Group Classic 68-66-67-67=268 −16 1 stroke Australia Scott Gardiner

Other wins (4)

Major championships

Wins (1)

YearChampionship54 holesWinning scoreMarginRunner-up
2015 PGA Championship 2 shot lead −20 (68-67-66-67=268) 3 strokes United States Jordan Spieth

Results timeline

Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Masters Tournament DNP T2 WD 3 T20 T28 T10
U.S. Open DNP 2 T59 T2 T4 T9
The Open Championship T60 T30 DNP T32 T58 T4
PGA Championship T10 CUT CUT T8 T15 1

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 1 1 2 3 4 6 5
U.S. Open 0 2 0 3 4 4 5 5
The Open Championship 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 5
PGA Championship 1 0 0 1 3 4 6 4
Totals 1 3 1 7 11 13 22 19

World Golf Championships

Wins (2)

YearChampionship54 holesWinning scoreMargin
of victory		Runner-up
2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship n/a 23 holes France Victor Dubuisson
2016 WGC-Dell Match Play Championship (2) n/a 5 & 4 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.

Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Cadillac Championship DNP T45 T20 T33 DNP T31 T23
Dell Match Play DNP R16 R32 3 1 T52 1
Bridgestone Invitational T22 T4 T29 T53 WD T12
HSBC Champions DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP

Professional career summary

PGA Tour

Season Starts Cuts
made 		Wins
(majors) 		2nd 3rd Top
10 		Top
25 		Earnings
($) 		Money
list rank
2006 7 5 0 0 0 0 2 174,508 n/a
2008 28 13 0 0 0 2 6 767,393 136
2009 18 14 0 1 0 2 7 1,251,219 69
2010 24 18 1 1 0 5 112,904,327 21
2011 21 18 0 2 1 10 12 3,962,647 9
2012 17 13 0 0 0 4 8 1,143,233 88
2013 21 21 0 1 2 7 12 3,625,030 12
2014 15 14 1 2 0 6 9 3,789,574 16
2015 20 18 5 (1) 0 1 11 15 9,403,330 2
2016 9 8 2 0 0 5 8 3,671,728 2
Career 180 142 9 (1) 7 4 52 90 30,692,989 21[41]

Team appearances

Professional

Equipment

Equipment is accurate as of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (11 February 2016)[42]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Jason Day profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Jason Day profile". PGA Australia. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Ellie Day, wife of golfer Jason Day, enjoys life on PGA Tour". Mansfield News Journal. 21 August 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Day moves into the worlds top ten for the first time" (PDF). Official World Golf Ranking. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 Ubalde, Mark Joseph (19 September 2007). "Jason Day: Pinoy-Aussie golfing champ". GMA News. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Jason Day will play in Melbourne after typhoon tragedy". BBC Sport. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  7. ↑ "Jason Day — EthniCelebs". Ethnicelebs.com. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Australia's Premier Junior Golf Facility". 13 February 2008. Archived from the original on 13 February 2008.
  9. ↑ Colman, Mike. Courier-Mail, "QWeekend", 5/6 April 2008
  10. ↑ "Jason Day". Queensland Golf. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007.
  11. ↑ "Amateur Golf Star Jason Day Turns Professional; Joins TaylorMade-adidas Golf Tour Staff". 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007.
  12. ↑ Cordero, Dave. "Jason Day: From Down Under (the Radar) to PGA Champion". World Golf Hall of Fame. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Day becomes youngest ever to win Tour-sponsored event". PGA Tour. 8 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007.
  14. 1 2 "Jason Day – Statistics". PGA Tour. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  15. ↑ Jennings, Randy (23 May 2010). "Final hole of Nelson was wet, wild". ESPN. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  16. ↑ "Day finishes in a tie for second at the 2011 Masters". Major Championships. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  17. ↑ "Jason Day finishes second at the 2011 US Open". Drummond Golf. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  18. ↑ Hodgetts, Rob (14 April 2013). "Adam Scott beats Angel Cabrera in play-off". BBC Sport.
  19. ↑ Porter, Kyle (12 August 2013). "Best major golfers for 2013? Adam Scott and Jason Day". CBS Sports.
  20. ↑ "Jason Day beats Victor Dubuisson in epic final". BBC Sport. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "Jason Day wins at Torrey Pines". ESPN. Associated Press. 8 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Week 6: Day Back to World No. 4". OWGR. 9 February 2015.
  23. ↑ "U.S. Open toughens as leaderboard jams". ESPN. 20 June 2015.
  24. ↑ Cannizzaro, Mark (12 August 2015). "Why Jason Day thinks he's finally ready to win first major". New York Post.
  25. ↑ "Jason Day ends on 3-hole birdie run to snatch Canadian Open victory". ESPN. Associated Press. 27 July 2015.
  26. ↑ Pells, Eddie (16 August 2015). "The Latest: Day closes out PGA Championship". Yahoo Sports. Associated Press.
  27. ↑ Murray, Ewan (17 August 2015). "Jason Day holds off Jordan Spieth to win PGA at Whistling Straits". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  28. ↑ Strege, John (20 September 2015). "A Day dream fulfilled: Jason Day runs down his goal of becoming No. 1 in the world". Golf Digest.
  29. ↑ "Jordan Spieth closes with 1-under 69 to capture FedEx Cup, $10M bonus". ESPN. Associated Press. 28 September 2015.
  30. ↑ Inglis, Martin (21 March 2016). "Tiger Woods' texts inspire Day to victory". bunkered.
  31. ↑ McEwan, Michael (27 March 2016). "Jason Day returns to world No.1". bunkered.
  32. ↑ McEwan, Michael (28 March 2016). "Jason Day seals successive victories". bunkered.
  33. ↑ Bennett, Craig (21 June 2015). "Ellie Day, Jason's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". heavy.com.
  34. ↑ "Day, wife Ellie welcome new daughter Lucy". Golf Channel. 12 November 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  35. ↑ Withers, Tom (18 December 2015). "LeBron crashes into wife of golfer Jason Day in Cavs' win". The Philippine Star. Associated Press. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  36. ↑ Langford, Vince (17 August 2015). "New PGA champion Jason Day's Fort Worth connection". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
  37. ↑ "Golfer Jason Day lost eight relatives to Typhoon Haiyan". CBS News. 17 November 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  38. ↑ "Golfer Jason Day wins The Don sports award". The Australian. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  39. ↑ "Jason Day claims first Greg Norman Medal". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  40. ↑ "Jason Day caps memorable year with Queensland's top sports award". Courier Mail. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  41. ↑ "Career Money Leaders". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  42. ↑ "Jason Day WITB 2016". 11 February 2016.

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