Jason Day (golfer)

Jason Day
Personnel
Nation:	Australia
Career data
Professional since:	2006
Current tour:	PGA Tour PGA Tour of Australasia
Tournament wins:	16
Major wins :	1 (2015)

Jason Day (born November 12, 1987 in Beaudesert , Queensland ) is an Australian professional golfer . Day was born to an Australian father and Filipino mother. He is married and lives in Westerville , Ohio .

Amateur career

He achieved his first major success in 2000 when he won the Australian Junior Masters at the age of 13. As a result, he was able to finish a season as first place in the Australian Junior Order of Merit twice.

At the Queensland Open, he was seventh and best amateur.

In the United States, he won the 2004 Callaway World Junior Championship in the Boys' Age 15-17 class and finished runner-up in the 2005 Porter Cup.

Professional career

Day switched to the professional camp in July 2006 and began participating in tournaments on the PGA Tour . He made the cut in five of his first six tournaments. However, he failed to qualify for the 2007 PGA Tour and he then played in the Nationwide Tour .

With his victory at the Legend Financial Group Classic 2007 he became the youngest golfer to win an event in one of the three PGA tournament series.

With the final 5th place on the Nationwide Tour money list, he secured the PGA Tour Card for 2008.

In 2010 he won the HP Byron Nelson Championship and became the youngest Australian to win a tournament on the PGA Tour.

In 2011 he finished 2nd in his first appearance at the Masters and achieved the best result of a debutant with 12 under par. And also at the next major tournament, the US Open , he reached 2nd place, which temporarily pushed him into the top ten in the world rankings .

In 2013, Day won the ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf both individually and in Team Australia with Adam Scott .

In February 2014, Day improved to fourth place in the world rankings by winning the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship .

After several successes on the PGA Tour in 2015, including a major success at the PGA Championship , he temporarily reached number 1 in the golf world rankings, which he was able to recapture after winning the WGC-Dell Match Play Championship at the end of March 2016. At the Players Championship he won by four strokes ahead of the American Kevin Chappell . On the first day he managed a lap of 63, with which he set the course record.

PGA Tour victories

• 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship
• 2014 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship
• 2015 Farmers Insurance Open, RBC Canadian Open, PGA Championship , The Barclays, BMW Championship
• 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Dell Match Play Championship , Players Championship
• 2018 Farmers Insurance Open

Major Championship is in bold .

Other tournament victories

• 2007 Legend Financial Group Classic ( Nationwide Tour )
• 2012 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Davis Love III and Nick Watney )
• 2013 ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf (individual and team classification with Adam Scott )
• 2014 Franklin Templeton Shootout (with Cameron Tringale)

Results at major championships

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Masters	DNP	T2	WD	T3	T20	T28	T10	T22	T20	T5
PGA Championship	T10	CUT	CUT	T8	T15	1	2	T9	T19	T23
US Open	DNP	2	T60	T2	T4	T9	T8	CUT	CUT	T21
Open Championship	T60	T30	DNP	T32	T58	T4	T22	T27	T17	CUT

DNP = did not take part
CUT = cut not made
"T" split placement
WD = withdrawn
Green background for victories
Yellow background for top 10

Participation in team competitions

• Presidents Cup (for the international team): 2011, 2013, 2015
• World Cup (for Australia): 2013 (team and individual winner)

Web links

• Player profile on the PGA Tour
• Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)