🏌️ Jason Day previews the USPGA, Olympics & talks golf fashion 👕 | Fox Sports Australia

Australian Jason Day chats the USPGA Championships, Olympics and golf fashion and his love for the President’s Cup.
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guess what a performance that was a breakthrough win there in a major for Jason day at Whistling Straits in 2015 I’m pleased to say the man himself joins us now on our preview of this year’s PGA Championship Jason great to see you thanks for your time and joining us and uh you must be looking forward to a return to Valhalla and the week ahead yeah no looking forward to return I had uh some good memories uh from Valhalla you know back when we played back when Rory won um I remember uh you know being in the final group on Saturday there so it was just uh I think they made some changes but like overall I uh I’m looking forward to a good week hey Jay take us back to uh that final green uh the emotion that you and Cole swaton uh poured out of you guys what was that like that was a tough long week but the journey you know from the boy from boow Desert to that point take us to that point yeah so it was um I mean obviously it was a long long journey you know you know going from what I went through as a kid and then um having Cole you know coached me from like 13 on and then our goal was to get number one in the world you know by 22 I think it was you know we ended up getting to like number five in the world at 23 and like it was like all these little steps along the way that we were trying to hit and then um in 2015 I I was playing some really really good golf going into into that week um just off the back end of uh the RBC Canadian uh win and and obviously playing well at you know uh at the Open Championship and I just felt like things were just kind of heading in that direction um and yeah like I mean obviously the emotions just poured out of me that week because you know how it is I mean Jeff and Paul were trying to you know do everything we possibly can to get ourselves in the position to win and um you know it’s very emotional to to do that at at the top level so after that obviously you I mean you played great for a long time number one in the world but your back started um troubling you a little bit more triggered some swing changes with Chris I mean I think your swing’s looking amazing now how’s that going and how’s that sort of progress been and is it is it genuinely that much better on your back than it used to be Jeff there was a time where like I I would really pride myself on cutting and I would really pride myself on on being saying how much time I would actually practice on my putting and I would I would know diligently and be disciplined about my putting routine I’d be two and a half two to two and a half hours a day of just putting alone and that was like very rarely did I ever miss a day and that’s why I puted so well and it got to a point where I couldn’t stand in place for more than 10 15 minutes um and you know it got to a point where I would go to a tournament I wouldn’t really practice Monday wouldn’t really practice Tuesday I’d try and get through the pram on Wednesday and then go okay let’s just play Thursday and Friday you know if you make the cut great if you don’t then you know you’ve just made another contract you know hit for your number for for the contracts off the golf course and I realized that I was playing for all the wrong reasons I was in pain a lot I nothing was really working and then finally I’m like okay well we got to come up with a plan because like I love golf and I I really enjoy playing golf competitively and it’s like something that really is deep to me is is how much I really love and enjoy playing golf it has been a process it’s been you know two to three years working with Chris and then I would say a good five to six years of working just hard on my body to get it to the point where you know I feel great I wake up every day and I don’t feel a pain also been a blessing in disguise um because it’s almost like I use my body to a certain degree as a training aid when things aren’t going well I get some aches and pains and I’m like okay well why does that happen then I learn something more about my body or learn something more about my swing and then um I kind of work myself out of it Jason you spoke there about Your Love of the Game and you’ve rediscovered that love that passion for the game after maybe having a bit of a chip on your shoulder for a little while there and the game had become a bit of a chore for you I mean I think you your spot on it just it felt like a chore it felt like it didn’t feel enjoyable to me um to play golf not only injured but just to play golf for the wrong reasons um you know there was no kind of love and passion behind my competitive days during when the time that I was injured and it was just like okay well you know am I finally getting close to to you know rack in the clubs and you know what I think if I didn’t if I didn’t make the changes bodywise I didn’t make the change sling wise yes I think that there would be potential of me not being able to play again when you’re in dark times and golf you can get very negative um uh and have a lot of negative selft talk you can get it can get pretty dark and during those times of being hurt and injured it got pretty dark and I wasn’t feeling great not only mentally but physically and it was hard for me to kind of push through but once again getting back to my support system and my family um my wife would always say you’re not done yet you got to keep pushing and you know I’m happy to say that I’m on the other side now I just got to tidy some things up um on the golf course uh to kind of find you know that that success and find that confidence again it’s fair to say jaay that you listen to Ellie too um which is a good thing hey five kids I’ve it’s always got me you’ve got five kids now how do you manage your time seriously that’s a lot of kids and you’ve got to go and play golf at the highest level and there’s not a lot of professional athletes have worked that out yet I’m still trying to work it out if you got if you know any AD tips or advice but as you notice I’m in my bus right now having you know Ellie and the kids on the road with me that definitely helps a lot being able to be around them as as I’m playing tournament because I don’t think a lot of players could handle five kids on a bus um with a wife and and go through that chaos and go and play tournament golf and um I actually thoroughly enjoy it like it’s almost like to the point where sometimes it gets a little crazy here and I go to the golf course and it’s like completely calm for me most importantly I mean there’s three Majors to go and maybe an Olympics but um President’s Cup this year our team is uh pretty excited with the idea of having Jason day back on the team given much thought to that are you excited yes very very much excited Montreal is one of my favorite cities to go and visit um it’s it’s superb uh the the whole place feels almost uh you know kind of old school European type of feel uh City but it’s like it’s just two hours from my house um which is fantastic and you know getting back to Mike we who’s had a lot of success as a Canadian player but also up up you know in Montreal as well so I’m I’m excited by that um I’m going to do everything I possibly can to get on the team and then I’m also looking forward to the Olympics as well so if I if I get the you know if I qualify for that and and get to go ahead I’m going to the Olympics as well hey Jay so this week how’s this course set up for you they made some changes um I haven’t I haven’t seen the changes yet but I enjoy the grass um that we’re be playing on um I I enjoy the Kentucky Blue uh grass rough that we play you know that that whole vibe of um you know that it’s it’s just a big long golf course that we get to play on um that we know that it’s going to be pretty thick rough like the PJ does a really good job of making it strong and difficult but fair um so they’re not too worried about keeping the the score around even but typically it’s somewhere majority of the times it it hits high single digits to you know low teams in in regards to the the winning score so um yeah I mean I I’ve got I feel like coming into this week like I haven’t the the game hasn’t quite been where it needs to be but like I’m you know quietly confident on what I’m seeing not only in practice but what I’m seeing at the golf course uh currently take me back to Augusta and what you’ve got in store for valh because your fashion and you new uh link with malborne became a real talking point at Augusta National yeah yeah um the the vest I mean a lot of people are invested in you know talking about my fashion whether it’s you know positive or negative I just don’t understand how people uh have the time to sit and comment on it all day but uh it’s it’s nice that the it’s getting subraction and getting a lot of you know people looking at uh at mour golf and and it’s it’s good that’s kind of like what they did they accomplished uh what they were set out to I actually quite like the best um obviously Augusta did not um so but like once again like you respectfully you know take it off if they ask you to take it off you don’t want to step on anyone’s toes but um I still I still have the vest here in the in the bus um still waiting for a perfect time to pull it back out but uh the kids these days definitely wear a lot more baggier stuff um and you know the fashion fashion World for for a lot of these kids that are watching golf is is huge for him so you’ll start I I shouldn’t say you’ll start to see more baggy stuff but it’ll be interesting to see in like a year two three years to see if like the baggier stuff comes back in fashion and it’s all cyclical but um it’ll be interesting not to the point of like maybe tiger early 2000s but or 90 late 90s but we’ll see how it goes well my 20-year-old son and his mates are all wearing really big baggy jeans so you’re ahead of the curve as usual Jason thanks for your time it’s been great to have a chat and I’m sure you’ll look a treat no matter what you’re wearing on Sunday if you’re holding up the W to make a trophy once again at Valhalla I appreciate it guys thank you so much