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It’s been a while since Jason Day has been in the winner’s circle of a major.
His lonely big victory is approaching his 10th anniversary (August 16 to be accurate) as the Australians took the PGA championship home at Whistling Straits during a race when day was the most dominant golfer on the planet and ranked No. 1 in the world.
But since then it has been a roller coaster.
He has fought for several injuries and went Winless over a five-year period. At the beginning of 2023 he was ranked 175.
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Jason Day made his front lawn for his own Oakmont Country Club for the US Open. (Truck)
When he enters the US Open, he ranks 39th place. And although he has not won in almost two years, he has been much more consistent. He just has to shake off these injuries; He recently missed some time with a wrist question.
“[My golf game has] Have been good at times I would say. But it has been chopped because I want to play well and then clearly get an injury and then I take a free and then I come back and I play well again and then I get another injury. So it’s just been … Very, very difficult to get any kind of momentum, “Day said in a recent interview with Pakinomist Digital.
“So I’ve played solid golf and I’ve had some good finishes, but I just can’t think we’re halfway through the season now, and I feel like the year has gone very, very quickly, but of course when you’re injured, you’re sitting out a lot and just waiting for, until … your body heals. So decent golf could play a little better, of course.”
This weekend’s US Open will be the first time he’s out on the field since last month’s PGA championship when he used to the aforementioned wrist injury. But he is perhaps more prepared for the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania than anyone else.
Day, thanks to his partnership with Trugreen, was able to recently build his front lawn for Oakmont relationship: Fixed Green, Thick Rub, all the fun things that any American open holds.
A US Open win would be DAY’s first big win of almost 10 years. (Truck)
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“I have a golf course in my front yard and I know how important it is to have the right people in place to be able to make it happen. I am preparing for the US Open to come up and we do everything we can to emulate the conditions we have on the US Open,” said Day. “The truer handles it, and it’s nice to be able to drive by and walk, ‘man, that the lawn looks really nice.’ This is the time of year when things are warming up and when we come to the summer’s meat, things will dry out so you need a team behind you to keep things looking mint.
“If you are on a simulator and you play Oakmont, you can see what the course will give you. But here I can grow the course, I can speed up the greens, I can grow the rough, I can set my course out,” added Day.
While Day may be out of this claim # 1, a win Sunday may just put him back on the path he has died for.
“When I was No. 1 in the world, I knew how hard it was to get there, the work and the forces and distractions that came with it. It’s hard to sit there and say that injuries have taken me out of some momentum,” said Day. “But a career is very long. I try to get these recent injuries behind me, and if I can have some healthy years and hit the ball hard, focus on what to do, hopefully I give myself a chance to challenge some of the best in the world.”
