Day delight with Canada comeback

Jason Day put his Open heartache behind him and holed a crucial putt to win the Canadian Open by a stroke.

Rolex Rankings number one Inbee Park has two shots left at a Career Grand Slam this season and could become just the seventh woman in history to achieve the feat.

Day is the sixth Australian to win the Canadian Open, joining Joe Kirkwood (1933), Jim Ferrier (1950, 1951), Kel Nagle (1964), Greg Norman (1984, 1992) and Nathan Green (2009) on the honour board.

Eighteen-year- old Lydia Ko, the world No.2, played in the Scottish Open at nearby Dundonald Links, and she reckoned her top five finish was ideal preparation.

So Day, who agonisingly missed the three-way play-off at St Andrews, will head to next month’s PGA Championship with renewed belief he can finally break his major duck.

The 19-year-old admits her previous win at Turnberry as a youngster can only be positive heading into this week’s event and says she is raring to go ahead of the penultimate major of the campaign.

“The mental focus that I had this week and last week and the way I’ve prepared over the last two weeks, everything that I’ve done, is exactly the make-up that I need going into future tournaments”.

Day shined at the Canadian Open despite a Monday finish at the British and the fatigue that came with travelling and turning right back around to play. When golfing, he wants to be “mentally stronger”.

“In the past, it’s been kind of nerve-racking for me to be one of the favourites because you have so much expectation on your shoulders to perform”, he said.

“I am so glad I got that putt in”. “I’m not on a time limit, which is great”.

Not renowned for her long hitting, Martin struck a superb 3-wood on the 72 hole that hit the pin and stopped six feet away, from where she converted for a timely eagle that would ultimately win the day.

Day will have a week off before resuming his build-up for the PGA Championship from August 13-16 at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in his home state of Ohio. But he did finish in the top 10 in 2010 at Whistling Straits, which Day remembers for a double bogey on the ninth hole that ended his chances.

“If anything, it’s going to help me”, Hadwin said of being a Canadian. “Watching the men play (at the Open Championship) and walking across the (Swilcan) Bridge brought back some memories because I stood and took a picture there”. But with aspirations of doing what Tiger Woods and McIlroy have and what Spieth is on the verge of, Day understands he has to close the deal on even bigger stages than the Canadian Open. “It really is tough to win”. They didn’t make her connecting flight from London’s Heathrow to Glasgow.