Jason Day – All The Details Of His Players Championship Success.

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WITH THIS VICTORY – JASON DAY

FULL NAME: Jason Anthony Day
HEIGHT: 6-0
WEIGHT: 195
BIRTHDATE: November 12, 1987
BIRTHPLACE: Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia

Jason Day wins 2016 Players

RESIDENCE: Forest Lake, Queensland, Australia; Columbus, Ohio
FAMILY: Wife, Ellie; Dash James (7/11/12), Lucy (11/11/15)
TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 2006
Web.com Tour Graduate (2007)
JOINED TOUR: 2008

10th PGA TOUR victory in 181st professional start at the age of 28 years 6 months 3 days.

2015-16 PGA TOUR Summary:
Starts – 10
Wins – 3
Top-10 finishes – 6
Top 25-finishes – 9
Cuts Made — 9
Official World Golf Rank: 1
FedExCup Position: With 600 FedExCup points, moves to No. 1 in the FedExCup standings for the second time in career; led FedExCup for three weeks in 2014-15 after winning The Barclays 2015.
PGA TOUR Victories (10):
2010 AT&T Byron Nelson
2014 World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play
2015 Farmers Insurance Open, RBC Canadian Open, PGA Championship, The Barclays, BMW Championship
2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational, World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play, THE PLAYERS
Jason Day and family

Dash Day points to way as dad walks off as 2016 Players Championship winner.

THE PLAYERS 2016 win marks seventh PGA TOUR victory in last 17 starts dating back to the 2015 RBC Canadian Open.
Owns second-most PGA TOUR victories for players under the age of 30:
Rory McIlroy     11
Jason Day        10
Jordan Spieth   7

Eight wins since the start of the 2013-14 season, most of any player the PGA TOUR in that time frame.

Fourth different Australian to win THE PLAYERS (Steve Elkington/2, Greg Norman, Adam Scott).

Sixth player with three or more career wire-to-wire wins since 1970 (Nick Price, Tiger Woods, Johnny Miller, Phil Mickelson, Tom Watson).

With a victory, Day would join Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and Martin Kaymer as the only players to win THE PLAYERS Championship, a major championship and a World Golf Championships event in their career.

With a victory, Day would become the third different player to win THE PLAYERS while ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking: Greg Norman (1994), Tiger Woods (2001 and 2013) and Jason Day (2016).

Since sharing the 54-hole lead at The Open Championship and finishing fourth last year, Day has converted 54-hole leads into wins at the 2015 PGA Championship, The Barclays 2015, the 2015 BMW Championship and the 2015 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

With wire-to-wire wins (no ties) at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and PLAYERS Championship, Day joins Tiger Woods (2000, 2002), Tom Watson (1980) and Johnny Miller (1974) as players to win wire-to-wire twice in the same season dating to 1970.

Earns his third career wire-to-wire win on the PGA TOUR (2015 BMW Championship, 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and 2016 PLAYERS Championship). Since 1970, six players have won wire-to-wire three times or more on TOUR: Tiger Woods (7), Tom Watson (6), Phil Mickelson (3), Nick Price (3), Johnny Miller (3) and Jason Day (3).

 

Fifth wire-to-wire winner in PLAYERS Championship history and the first since Hal Sutton in 2000.



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