Can Jason Day continue early season form at favoured venue?
Jason Day with one of his two Torrey Pines trophies – image Getty / PGA Tour
Four Australians will line up at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines this week, Jason Day, Adam Scott, Cam Davis and Karl Vilips taking to the North and South Courses at the public facility near San Diego.
Coming off his impressive performance when runner-up to Scottie Scheffler last week in La Quinta, which saw Day jump nearly 30 places in the world ranking to 33rd and as now the leading Australasian, Day plays a venue at which he has enjoyed considerable success, including two wins, a 2nd, and a 3rd place in 16 previous starts.
Day‘s victories in the event came in his great season of 2015, during which he became world number one and again in 2018, and given his great final round last week and his apparent liking for the Torrey Pines venue, it will be interesting to see if the progress he has made with his game of late continues.
Interestingly, Scott has played the event just twice, as he has typically started the season later, but with a runner-up finish to Justin Rose in 2019 and a 10th-place finish in 2021 in those two starts, he is another who seems to enjoy the US Open venue.
Scott had a solid week in La Quinta when 24th following a 40th place at the Sony Open, so his game is in reasonable shape ahead of this week’s task.
Cam Davis has battled with his game of late, with not one top 30 finish in his last 13 starts, including disappointing weeks at the Australian PGA and Open. With no finishes inside the top 30 in six starts in this event, he has a difficult task to get things heading back in the right direction.
Karl Vilips is in his second PGA Tour season, having won in his rookie season, and gets the chance to play the event for the first time, but he did play well last week and has a bit of confidence in what will be the second start of the season for the former West Australian resident.
Harris English and Matthew Pavon are the two most recent winners of the Farmers Insurance Open.
