Jason Day

About

Jason Anthony Day (born 12 November 1987) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, where he has won 13 times including the Players Championship in 2016 and the 2015 PGA Championship, his first major. He is a former world number 1 – having spent 51 weeks in that position.

Day was born in Beaudesert, Queensland. His father, Alvin, was Irish Australian, and his mother, Dening, migrated from the Philippines to Australia in the early 1980s. He has two siblings, Yanna and Kim. His father took him to Beaudesert Golf Club and enrolled him as a junior member just after 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.
Day’s mother sent him to Kooralbyn International School in the Gold Coast hinterland, which had a golf course attached. Later he went to Hills International College, where they have a golf academy, 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…