Determined Jason Day represents all that is good in the game

As a kid, Jason Day didn’t have it easy growing up. He was born into a poor family in Australia and his mother worked multiple jobs, even taking out a second mortgage on their family home, just to put him through school.

His alcoholic dad Alvyn was the strict parent in the house, frequently dispensing justice with his fists, but he was also the one who facilitated his son’s golf game, from his first 3-wood found in a rubbish dump to the putting green he built for Day at their family home in Rockhampton in Queensland.

Through hard work, Day’s game developed fast, earning him a reputation of a golfer of huge potential but when his father died of cancer in 1999, it sent a disillusioned Day (11) into a tail-spin (of drinking binges and late night brawls) from which he almost never recovered.