Jason Day admits to mental coaching to help him win first Major

Spieth and Day could rattle those numbers though if they keep performing like this. Day rose to third. Day is the old man in the group. Spieth is just 22. In spite of the tension and the stakes, they actually talked and laughed with each other.

“I think golf is in a very healthy stage now”. The ’40s gave us Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, and Ben Hogan. In the case of golf, The Big Three of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player certainly defined the first half of the 1960s for golf fans (even if Billy Casper could easily have made it the Big Four). Each seems like they would like to take their game to new levels. “We are beginning to blend into a post-Tiger era”.

He arrived there by shooting a 67 on Sunday after sitting on the 54-hole lead in his third consecutive major.

Here’s what I noticed about Jordan Spieth in yesterday’s final round. Spieth’s plan was to catch Day somewhere along the front nine, though he could tell early that Day was smashing the driver and would be tough to beat.

“Honestly the way Jordan has been playing and the way I haven’t played much this year, I think that was only my 12th or 13th event”, said Rory. “Well, better than everyone else”. Spieth lived up to the occasion by posting 17-under par. He managed to break another record formerly held by Woods. Jason has been knocking on that majors door for a long time.

Rose is the No 5 in the world rankings and said: “I’ve played the best golf of my life since I turned 30”. “I could have done a little bit more but it would have been hard to shoot 8-under and to go 15-under on the weekend”. And where I was based, I mean it wasn’t the greatest place.

“And if he was to get to No. 1 today, I’d be the first one to congratulate him because I know the golf you have to play to get to that spot, and it has been impressive this year”.

The 22-year-old Spieth also finished a remarkable 54 under par for the year’s four majors, one better than Woods in 2000 when he won the U.S. Open, British Open and the U.S. PGA.

No one got closer than two shots to Day the entire round.

“It was fantastic”, Spieth gushed.

“But it was all that frustration and heartache that fuelled it even more”. At the par-5 11th hole, he powered a massive drive that ended 382 yards down the fairway.

When asked Monday during the celebration at what point he knew the championship was theirs, Swatton said the second shot on the 18th was the moment since Jordon Spieth was a force until that time. “I didn’t expect I was going to cry”, he told CBS Television.

As soon as he rolled his birdie putt to within inches of the 18th hole on Sunday to make absolutely certain of his first major title after numerous near-misses, Day was in tears as the enormity of his achievement hit home. After all, Day has been a major champion for all of two days. “I remember watching (his mother) cut the lawn with a knife because we couldn’t afford to fix the lawn mower”. Of boiling kettles of water to take a hot shower.

“That’s what I’m looking forward to in the future… the sheer competition of being able to fight against these guys each week”. “And it feels good!” “Here we did what we could and it wasn’t enough because Jason just played that good“.