Jason Day has summoned his old mate Col Swatton back as coach, and the pair are fired up for this month’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, a course where Day has won before.
Jason Day may have earned a fifth top-10 result at the Masters but the perennial Augusta contender blasted himself for not capitalising on another year in the mix at the April major.
Rory McIlroy has succeeded Tiger Woods’s throne as golf’s greatest modern player by winning the Masters at Augusta National to become just the sixth golfer in history to complete golf’s career grand slam.
Shane Lowry wasn’t having it. He’d just come off the 18th hole having finished bogey-bogey, dropping from five back to seven back in a blink. He’d battled all day to post an under par round and get inside the top four on the leader board. Instantly spoiled.
Of all the nations, who’d have thought Australia would be the most hellbent on making golf style statements at the Masters? Cameron Smith practiced in a four-way stretch navy sport coat on Wednesday, and there was much handwringing over what Jason Day would wear Thursday.
Players Championship leader Min Woo Lee plans to continue benching his biggest weapon in the driver and wield his nuclear 2-iron around the tricky TPC Sawgrass with strong winds forecasted to batter the field in the closing rounds.
Jason Day says reuniting his wildly successful partnership with swing coach Colin Swatton has helped him fall in love with putting again on the eve of the elite Players Championship.
Former world No.1 Adam Scott has praised the meteoric rise of Australian youngster Karl Vilips and the US college system after the 23-year-old’s breakthrough PGA Tour at last week’s Puerto Rico Open.
The PGA Tour is readying to debut its World Feed at this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass and Australian fans are likely wondering what this will mean for the viewing experience Down Under.
Australian Golf Digest
