It was an inauspicious return to competition for newly-crowned PGA Championship winner Jason Day when forced to push a broken down golf cart.

Day had just spent a couple of hours on the Plainfield Country Club practice range in Edison, New Jersey and venue for this week’s Barclays Championship when he boarded an eight-seater motorised cart back to the clubhouse.

However broken down around 50 yards short of its destination and with Day and other in the cart happily obliging the driver by pushing it away from obstructing the main cart path route between the clubhouse and practice range.

Newly-crowned PGA Champion Jason Day returns to the PGA Tour and finds himself joining Brooks Koepka (Titleist cap) helping to push a broken down cart out of the way.

“A PGA Champion is not supposed to be doing this, is he?” said Day with a smile on his face.

Moments earlier he lit up the face of 7-year old Andrew Smallwood who along with his father, Kevin were visiting from Summit, New Jersey and located about an hour’s drive north.  (See earlier story)

Day happily handed the youngster a 52-degree wedge saying:  “Here, this is for you.  It’s a wedge I used all week at Whistling Straits and you can have it.”

Australia’s newest Major Champion gets back to work on Thursday with the goal of not only capturing the FedEx Cup but in the process of hoping to deny World No. 1 the ‘PGA Tour Player of the Year’.