Jason Day back inside top 100
Jason Day – file photo
Jason Day’s share of 7th place at this past week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in Southern California has seen the 35 year old re-enter the top 100 in the world ranking for the first time since the Players Championship last year, working his way back from outside the top 160 when missing the cut at the Fortinet Championship in September.
Day’s finish at one of his favourite venues over the weekend should see him just inside the top 90 when the rankings are revised later today and while a long way from the giddy heights of world number one in 2016, he is headed in the right direction.
Day’s final round of 68 over a layout where he has won a World Junior Championship and two Farmer’s Insurance Opens improved him from 15th overnight to share 7th place with the in-form Jon Rahm who struggled to a final round 74.
I think the week was nice,” said Day. “I had a lot of good memories from this tournament and the golf course itself, so to be able to come in off last week’s good play and then kind of back it up to this week was nice. So I’ve got a week off coming up and then Phoenix and L.A.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s still not quite 100 percent because there’s some shots like yesterday coming down the stretch, I hit a bunch right. There’s just like I’ve got to kind of work out the tendencies and where does the game go in competition, especially the swing.
“Some of it’s good, some of it’s bad, some of it’s in between, but like you’ve just got to get it in the hole at the end of the day when you play competition and I felt like I kind of managed my game pretty well the last two weeks.”
“I’m really looking forward to taking this next week off just to kind of really smash the swing out, try and get into Phoenix with it — I mean, I’m going to go see Chris (Como his coach) down in Phoenix for a couple days before the tournament, which is nice. It’s always good to have like hands-on work with him.
“You know, it’s all positive stuff. I think the game is moving in the right direction that the whole 2 team wants it to move in. I think it’s a good start to the year, I’ve just got to like kind of take the positives and just keep moving forward.”
