Cometh the Day, cometh the golfer as Jason Day finally shook off the tag of ‘One of the best golfers never to win a Major’.

But not only did Day win  a maiden Major but he did so carving out a slice of golfing history with his 20-under par PGA Championship winning tally the lowest ever in a Major Championship.

The 27-year old Queensland-born Day also became the 11th Australian-born winner of a Major and also the fifth player to be handed the gleaming Rodman Wanamaker Trophy.

It was also the 20th anniversary of the last time an Australian captured the season ending final Major after Steve Elkington defeated Colin Montgomerie to win the 1995 PGA Championship at Riviera in suburban L.A.

Jason Day finally shrugs the most unwanted tage in golf to capture the  PGA Championship. Picture Eoin Clarke, www.golffile.ie

Day had been in tears nearly a month earlier after his putt on the final green at St. Andrews came up short that would have seen him force his way into an Open Championship play-off.

He later received a text from double Major winning, and fellow Queensland-born Greg Norman declaring ‘you will bite off the snake’s head and win a Major’.

Day drew on the text and a week later capture the RBC Canadian Open.

But when he came to Whistling Straits the golfer who had been so close in so many Majors over the past five years was on a mission and nobody, not even Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth were going to stand in his way.

Day again began shedding tears as he stood over a short virtual tap-in but on this occasion they were tears of joy.  Joy that he had finally shaken that Major’s monkey from his back, and tears for all those close in his life.

“I played so great at St. Andrews only having three bogeys all week and that was all in the second round, and coming up so short and I really thought that my first Major Championship was going to be at the Open Championship this year,” he said with his eyes still reddened.

Jason Day and his mother Dening.

“I really did think that. The U.S. Open was very — it was a tough task for me, but I really thought The Open Championship was going to be mine.

“But you flip it now and I’m here at the PGA Championship with the amount of emotion that’s come out of me, and I’ve said it before, but just the journey that I’ve been on, knowing that when my father passed away, there was — I wouldn’t have been here if my father didn’t pass away.

“And that’s just because of that door closed for me, but another opportunity opened up for me. That was for my mom to sacrifice and my sisters to sacrifice for me, so I could get away to a golf academy and work hard and meet Col and work hard on my game.

“And to be able to have Colin on the bag at the first Major Championship win, walking up 18, knowing that I’ve got the trophy, it was just hard. I was trying to hold back tears over the first putt. And when I saw the putt go up to half a foot, I just couldn’t stop crying. It’s just a lot of hard work that I’ve been putting into this game to dedicate myself to have a shot at glory, have a shot at greatness. And that’s what we all work towards. It’s a good feeling.”

Spieth, the new World No. 1, sat beside Day in the scorer’s hut having thrown everything at the player five years older but having come up short in a quest to also join golf’s history and become among just a handful to have won three Major’s in a single season.

PGA Championship rivals – Jason Day and Jordan Spieth shake hands after their duel in the Wisconsin sun. (Photo -Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)

As they exchanged scorecards Spieth turned to his Australian-born opponent and good friend remarking:  “There was nothing more I could do.”

Day especially singled out his mother, Dening who was at work in Beaudesert, south of Brisbane Monnday morning Australian time when her son became golf’s newest Major winner.

Day’s late father Alvin Day, passed away from stomach cancer when Jason was 12-years-old but knew his son had talent.

At the age of three, the golfer picked up a cut-down three wood that his father found in the rubbish and swung at a ball in the backyard with full force.

Ms Day said his father always knew he would succeed and that he would celebrating today if he were still alive.

“I think he will be doing cartwheels up there,” she said.

“I was so excited and I’m just so proud of him … it has been a long time coming for him as Jason has worked so hard at every tournament, he’s always tried his best and to win this one and the last major for the year is tremendous.

“Since I’ve been at work I haven’t had a chance to celebrate yet.”

Jason Day embraces his caddy since he was 12 1/2 years old – Col Swanton.

Coach/caddy Colin Swatton took Day under his wing while he was at boarding school in Kooralbyn south of Brisbane, helping him not only with golf but as a father figure.

Day was just 12 1/2 years and that tender age was already getting into serious trouble battling an alcohol problem.

“Col’s been there for me since I was 12 and a half years old, so it’s been a long-time relationship between me and Colin,” said Day.

“For him to be on the bag, not only for my first win on the PGA Tour, but my first Major Championship win, I mean, he’s taken me from a kid that was getting in fights at home and getting drunk at age 12 and not heading in the right direction to a Major champion winner.

“And there’s not many coaches that can say that in many sports. So, he means the world to me. I love him to death.”

Australian golf could not be more deserving of a more worthy champion.

Congratulations Jason, the golf world is very proud of you.