Jason Day

Day went on to make the cut and finish in a tie for 60th place.

His father, Alvin, was Irish Australian, and his mother, Dening, migrated from the Philippines to Australia in the early 1980s.

He has two siblings, Yanna and Kim.

His father took him to Beaudesert Golf Club and enrolled him as a junior member just after his sixth birthday.

He was allowed to play six holes a day as a junior.

At the age of eight his family moved to Rockhampton, and during this period he began to win events in the surrounding districts.

Alvin Day died of stomach cancer when Jason was 12.

Day's mother sent him to Kooralbyn International School, which had a golf course attached.

Later he went to Hills International College, where they have a golf academy, at the behest of his coach, Col Swatton, who had moved there when Kooralbyn school closed down.

Day borrowed a book about Tiger Woods from his roommate, and it inspired him to improve his golf by practicing in the early morning, at lunch-time and in the evening.

He used the book's reports of Woods' scores as his benchmark for improvement and as a reachable standard.

Jason Anthony Day (born 12 November 1987) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and most notably won the 2015 PGA Championship.

His first big win was at the age of 13 in a 2000 Australian Masters junior event on the Gold Coast, where he won with scores of 87, 78, 76 and 76.

As an amateur, Day was twice awarded the Australian Junior Order of Merit.

He finished seventh and was the leading amateur at the Queensland Open.

Day won the Australian Boys' Amateur in 2004.

His amateur success extended to the United States, where he won the Boys 15–17 division at the 2004 Callaway World Junior Championship and was runner-up in the 2005 Porter Cup.

He was a member of the Golf Australia National Squad.

In 2005, Day lost in a playoff at the Greater Building Society QLD PGA Championship; a professional event on the Von Nida Tour.

He was beaten by Scott Gardiner on the fourth extra hole.

Day turned professional in July 2006 after winning the Green Jacket at the NEC Master of the Amateurs, signing with TaylorMade and Adidas and immediately began playing PGA Tour events, principally through sponsors' exemptions.

He made the cut in five of his first six PGA Tour events as a pro with a best finish of eleventh at the Reno-Tahoe Open and with official winnings of over $160,000.

He entered PGA Tour qualifying, or Q-School.

Placed in the second of three rounds, he tied for first in his section of the second round, advancing to the Q-School finals.

However, in the six-round finals he played poorly, shooting fifteen shots higher than the score needed to qualify.

Accordingly, he failed to earn his 2007 PGA Tour card but earned conditional status on the Nationwide Tour for 2007.

Day won his first Nationwide Tour event in July 2007 at the Legend Financial Group Classic, becoming the youngest man to win on any of the PGA Tour's three tours.

The win jumped him to eighth on the Nationwide Tour's money list.

He ended up finishing 5th on the money list to earn his PGA Tour card for 2008.

He had a mediocre season, but had conditional status for 2009.

A second-place finish at the Puerto Rico Open helped Day retain his card for 2010, and he finished 69th in the money list.

In May 2010, he became the youngest Australian to win a PGA Tour event, winning the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

Day gained entry into his first ever major championship at the 2010 Open Championship after Greg Norman withdrew.

In August 2010, Day made his first appearance at the PGA Championship, where a 66 on Saturday helped him to finish seven-under-par for the tournament and earn his first top-10 in a major.

Day first broke into the world's top ten in June 2011, rising to world number nine after his runner-up finish at the U.S. Open.

In February 2014, Day won his first WGC title, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and would win it for a second time in 2016.

He is a former world number one in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015.

He went on to win his first major tournament at the 2015 PGA Championship, scoring a record 20 strokes under par and rising to number three in the world rankings.

Day was born in Beaudesert, Queensland.

With his 2016 win, he joined Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy as the only multiple winners of the WGC Match Play.