In his words, Jason Day doesn’t spend nearly enough time at home in Australia as he’d like. It’s safe to say that many of Australia’s golf journalists share that opinion, so they jumped at the opportunity yesterday to sit with our leading golfer at The Star in Sydney.

Day, fully relaxed in jeans and a T-shirt, gave great insight with candid responses to a series of questions in the lead-up to his tilt at a first Emirates Australian Open crown this week.

From his plan to reach No.1 again, through his troubled 2017 campaign, Day was every bit the man who’ll attract huge fanfare at The Australian Golf Club this week.