Day captures his first Major, wins PGA

“I believe I can find that extra one or two per cent to get me over the line when I’m in contention again”. “And where I was based, I mean it wasn’t the greatest place”.

The newly crowned US PGA champion acknowledges it won’t be easy trying to reel in “two guys playing some phenomenal golf” in order to scale the rankings summit. “Stuff like this is just the icing on top of the cake when you work so hard, and being able to achieve something like this”. He shot a final round 67 to win by three shots and his 20-under score for the week is a major championship record.

He has won four times on the PGA Tour, including at the Masters and the US Open, and is now looking down on the rest of his peers, with McIlroy second and Day third.

The Wanamaker Trophy was all he wanted.

“Just pure frustration”, he said.

Day’s first major ended years of coming close.

” That’s how I think of it with the game’s young players”.

This time he left no room for error.

“It was fantastic”, Spieth said. More than a caddie, Swatton helped Day, a troubled youth, turn his life around and eventually grab one of golf’s major championships.

He began the year by reaching 14-under at the Masters, which was only good enough for second place, four shots behind 22-year-old runaway victor Jordan Spieth.

But if this keeps up, Day might join him down the road.

“I accomplished one of my lifelong goals in the sport of golf“, Spieth said.

The worldwide team will attempt to beat the United States in the event for the first time since 1998 – when it was played at Royal Melbourne – when the Presidents Cup heads to South Korea in October. But not winning had haunted him.

“That’s why a lot of emotion came out on 18″, Day said via ESPN.com.

He called his man “100 percent resilient… tenacity, the willingness to fight, dig deeper than anybody”.

Jordan Spieth had a heck of a season on the links. Day’s mother made infinite sacrifices to send him to boarding school and make sure he got the golf instruction he needed.

Spieth, 22, admitted there was simply nothing he could do to stop Day. To be able to play the way I did today, especially with Jordan in my group, I could tell that he was the favorite. “It has taken over now”, said Day, and there was no cause to argue the point after 39-year-old Tiger Woods – floundering all season – missed the cut at his third major in a row.

“Winning the PGA Championship is very special. It was really a clinic to watch”. Day grinned back and flexed his biceps. When Day was 12 years old growing up in Australia, his father passed away. “I don’t know what it was, I don’t know how it happened, but I was sitting there before the fourth round and I felt a calmness over me. That was for my mom to sacrifice and my sisters to sacrifice”. That’s a worry Day’s son, Dash, and wife Ellie will never have. It’s a shame we have to wait 233 days for the next major.

The answer would be yes – as a major victor.