15 Things You Didn't Know About Jason Day
1. He was introduced to the game by his father who sadly passed away when Jason was just 12 years old
2. His coach and former caddie, Colin Swatton, persuaded him to attend golf college in Australia, where Day read and was inspired by a Tiger Woods book and used Woods' achievements by age to measure his own progress
3. He has a street named after him in his hometown of Beaudesert, Australia (south of Brisbane). They named it 'Jason Day Drive' after his 2015 season
4. His 2015 season was the best of his career, reaching the World No.1 spot, winning his maiden Major at the USPGA Championship and four other PGA Tour titles.
5. Also, in 2015, he won the Don Award by Sport Australia Hall of Fame and was the inaugural recipient of the Greg Norman Medal. He also won the Queensland Sports Star of the Year award and won the Greg Norman Medal again in 2016
6. His mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and given just 12 months to live in early 2017. She had the cancerous mass removed from her lung but, in March 2022, she sadly passed away.
7. His career earnings exceed $50m
8. He now lives just outside of Columbus, Ohio
9. He turned professional in 2006 after winning the Australian Amateur Stroke Play, Master of the Amateurs and Queensland Amateur
10. He married his now-wife Ellie in 2009. They have four children together - Dash, who was born in 2012. Their second child, Lucy, came into the world in 2015, with Arrow and Ozzie born in late-2018 and 2021
11. His father was of Irish-Australian descent and his mother is of Filipino descent
12. Eight of his Filipino relatives, including his grandmother, died in Typhoon Haiyan in 2013
13. His birthday is on November 12th.
14. He has won 18 times as a pro including one Major, 13 PGA Tour victories and two WGCs
15. He has spent 51 weeks atop the Official World Golf Ranking
