Jason Day has been battling the injury bug for most of his career, even as a young player. But now he’s 37, a wily PGA Tour veteran by today’s standards, making him even more susceptible to the odd bump or bruise, including ones that occur off the golf course.
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“Long story short, I was moving a bike and something popped in my [left] wrist,” Day revealed to us on this week’s episode of The Loop podcast. “I couldn’t move it for at least a week, week and a half. It’s a two-to-four week wrist injury. It’s not going to be, like you’re going to have it and overnight it’s going to get better. It’s getting better now.”Â
That explains Day’s WD last week from his hometown event, the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village. Though the former World No. 1 told us the issue with his wrist first flared up a few months ago, and moving the bicycle made the issue far worse.
“The way that I moved it, it was just like one of those freak accidents,” he said. “It felt like I had tendonitis in there for like two or three weeks. So when that happened, I was just like, it was bound to happen at some point.”
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Day says he already dealt with a neck issue that sprouted up during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in March. He managed a T-8 that week before taking two weeks off. He then played the Texas Children’s Houston Open (T-27), the Masters (T-8) and the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town in mid-April (T-49). Since then he’s played in only one event, the PGA Championship (MC), meaning when he tees it up in his 13th career US Open next week in Pittsburgh, the opening round will be just his third competitive round since April 20.Â
Competitive rust and a sore wrist are two of the last things you need when heading into Oakmont, where Day finished inside the top 10 back in 2016. But the former PGA champion is still quietly confident.
“I feel pretty good,” he said. “I was going to play Canada this week, to prep for the US Open, but going from — I started swinging yesterday for the first time in two or three weeks, and I didn’t feel like I should go from no swings to 100 percent full driver swings so quick. I had to be very cautious, because if you go there and tear the TFCC (triangular fibrocartilage complex), that’s a surgery. So I’m just trying to be as smart as possible with it.”
Fortunately, Day has an all-world practice facility at home, one that has a bunker with literal Oakmont sand in it. He explains how that came to be and much more in our full chat, which can be heard below. We also discuss his Malbon style statements, why he believes Scottie Scheffler is the next all-time great and the most difficult challenge of the World No. 1 title. Please, have a listen below, and like and subscribe to The Loop wherever you get your podcasts.
