Jason Day won the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits with a score of 20-under, the lowest score-to-par in major championship history at the time. The win, his first major after a string of agonising near-misses, sent him to World No. 1 — a position he held for 51 weeks.
Day’s resilience is the through-line of his career. He left Beaudesert in rural Queensland at age 12 for the Kooralbyn Hindmarsh golf school after his father died of cancer; he won eight PGA Tour titles in 2014-2015 alone; he has played the better part of a decade with chronic back issues that have repeatedly forced withdrawals mid-tournament.
He is married to Ellie Harvey, who he met at a restaurant in Twinsburg, Ohio, in 2007. They live in the Columbus area with their five children and his caddie-turned-mentor Colin Swatton, who has been alongside Day since his teenage years.
Career Earnings Trajectory
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World Ranking Trajectory
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What's in the bag
- Driver
- TaylorMade Qi35 LS
- Irons
- TaylorMade P7MB
- Putter
- TaylorMade Spider Tour V
- Ball
- TaylorMade TP5
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