Akron, Ohio … 

For an Aussie living in Ohio, Jason Day feels right at home.

He and Ohio-born wife, Ellie along with their two children live in suburban Columbus and the capital of the State of Ohio.

Ohio is the seventh most populated and the 34th largest of the 50 American states and with the state affectionately known as the ‘Buckeye’ State.

Since 1962, Ohio has featured on the PGA Tour schedule with the first staging at the Firestone Counry Club of the World Series of Golf that up to 1975 was a ‘made-for’TV’ exhibition event before becoming a full Tour event in 1976 and then right up to 1998.

Aussie-born and Ohio-based Jason Day wins 2016 Players Championship

In 1999, the event became the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.

Ohio’s other PGA Tour event is the Jack Nicklaus Memorial that was first staged in 1976 on the Nicklaus designed Muirfield Village course.

Day made his Ohio appearance in teeing-up in the 2008 Memorial but it was a week he’d rather forget missing the cut with scores of 73 and 83.

Day has since contested every Memorial since then with the exception of 2011 and with his best result being T15th in 2017.

In looking at his WGC – Bridgestone Invitational stats Day has contested the event every year since 2011 and with his best finish being T4th in 2011 and a T3rd in 2016.

That’s 18 events in Ohio with just two top-10s.

In the bigger USA picture, Day’s had 12 North American wins on the PGA Tour and with his best performed States being two wins apiece in Texas, California and Florida.

But the now 30-year old has yet to savour success in Ohio.

I asked the current World No. 10 if he felt the Buckeye State owed him a win and the Queenslander’s response was superb.

“No, no, no. Nothing owes you in the game of golf, unfortunately,”he said of teeing-up in the third round of this week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.

“I wish it would — you have to go out and work for it, and unfortunately that’s just life. Nothing’s ever given to you or owed to you, you’ve got to go out and take it, so I’ve got to do a lot of work over the next two days.”