Born-again Aussie golf star Jason Day has detailed how an opportunity assembly with Tiger Woods‘ former swing coach offered the sudden tonic that resuscitated his ailing profession.
After spiralling to one hundred and seventy fifth within the rankings final September, Day is flying excessive once more at No.20 on this planet after parlaying the type of six top-10 finishes this 12 months right into a dam-busting first PGA Tour victory since March 2018.
Day fired a elegant nine-under-par 62 within the closing spherical to win the AT&T Byron Nelson Championship for a second time – 13 years after claiming his maiden PGA Tour occasion on the Texas match.
The victory was additional emotional for Day, approaching Mom’s Day a 12 months after he misplaced his personal mom to cancer.
In a poignant tribute, Day’s caddie sported a bib together with his mom’s delivery identify ‘Adenil’ and the impressed former world No.1 honoured her reminiscence in fashion together with his first match win because the 2018 Farmers Insurance coverage Open.
Jason Day has defined how an opportunity assembly with Tiger Woods’ former swing coach after the American star reached out for assist has resuscitated his ailing golf profession
Tiger Woods contacted Day when he was combating chipping – and the Aussie was launched to the US icon’s swing coach Chris Como
However the 35-year-old former world No.1 admits he might not have come full circle if not for Woods reaching out for assist throughout his personal profession nadir.
‘When Tiger was going by way of the chipping yips, Tiger invited me out to type of go over chipping method and all the pieces like that,’ Day revealed within the afterglow of his spectacular Sunday in Dallas.
‘Chris Como [Tiger’s swing coach] had seen a ton of 3D bio-testing of my chipping and so they wished to choose my mind, I suppose, about what I believed and all that stuff regarding the chipping.
‘And I keep in mind popping out of that assembly with Tiger and Chris and considering, “There’s one thing about Chris”.
‘He is very quiet, listens very intently, however you could possibly inform that he knew lots concerning the sport and knew it at a deeper degree, what the membership ought to be doing.’
Then, after speaking to a few of his friends and studying that Como did not have many gamers on his books on the time, Day sounded out the swing guru.
Como got here on board in 2021 and has since helped Day rebuild his swing to alleviate the again points that had Australia’s one-time main winner contemplating quitting golf altogether.
‘There was simply one thing about him that drew me to him, so I simply knew after I talked to him concerning the golf swing that he was very switched on,’ Day mentioned.
Chris Como (pictured left) got here on board in 2021 and has since helped Day rebuild his swing to alleviate the again points that had him excited about retiring from the game
Day was very emotional as he took out the Byron Nelson Championship final weekend to interrupt a PGA victory drought that lasted 5 years
Earlier than sending out the SOS name to Como, Day was critically considering retiring.
‘There have been undoubtedly occasions after I thought ‘you already know what, I am executed taking part in the sport’. Simply due to the stress it was placing on me and what it was doing to my well being,’ he mentioned on Monday.
‘Mentally, I used to be not there and I wasn’t assured in myself.
‘I truthfully felt like I did not have the sport and that perhaps I used to be a type of guys that had a extremely good profession and accidents damage me and thru the battling of accidents and attempting to get again to the highest, perhaps I used to be a type of guys who was going to exit that method.
‘However I did not need to look again on my profession and know that I did not give it shot to get again.’
Day mentioned if it wasn’t for his spouse Ellie, his caddy and lifelong pal Luke Reardon, his coach and the remainder of his staff, he’d possible have walked away from the game.
‘They took, not loads of warmth, however loads of damaging feedback simply from me about myself,’ he mentioned.
‘To have them as type of just like the assist group that I actually wanted to push me by way of this was crucial as a result of if you do not have the proper individuals in place, it’s extremely, very troublesome to have any success – particularly in golf.
‘They taught me not to surrender on your self.’
