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Jason Day has finished in a share of 10th place at the opening event of the 2024 PGA Tour season, a final round of 67 on the low-scoring Plantation Course layout at Kapalua, actually losing the 36-year-old ground.
Day began his quest to chase down the 54 leaders well when, after starting the day three off the pace, he moved within one of the lead after four birdies in his opening seven holes today before a wild tee shot at the par 3 8th cost him a double bogey.
Although he would birdie four holes in a five-hole stretch through his final nine holes, the amount of players in contention meant it was always going to be a hard task to recover, although given this was the first of the signature events for 2024 his two-way share of 10th would mean a cheque for US$530,000 to get the season underway.
Cam Davis was the only other Australian in the 59-player field and finished 52nd despite a last round of 8 under 65.
The winner Chris Kirk finished one ahead of former Australian Master of the Amateurs winner, Sahith Theegala to pocket the US$3.6 million winner’s cheque and win his 6th PGA Tour title.
The PGA Tour now heads across Hawaii to Honolulu and the Sony Open where Cam Davis and Aaron Baddeley are the Australians in the field.
