Day’s last win was at the Players Championship in May.
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“It’s been a insane last 12 months”, Day said.
The victory marked the start of a red-hot run by Day, who won four of six events, including the PGA Championship and two of the FedExCup playoff tournaments.
Jason Day, defending his title at the Canadian Open, placed himself in the mix with a three-under 69.
Unfortunately, though respectable, a tie for 10th at the season-ending Tour Championship meant Day relinquished the coveted position to that tournament’s victor, fellow five-time Tour victor in 2015 Jordan Spieth.
The pair swapped the top top spot twice beforre the end of the year though it was Spieth who celebrated New Year’s Eve as the world’s highest ranked golfer.
2016 started eerily similar to the way 2015 had ended for Day, a string of solid performances on Tour culminating in a wire-to-wire win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
List had a birdie on No. 10, his first hole of the round, then followed it up with a birdie on Nos.
Curry, who finished fourth three years ago in the tournament with a $600,000 purse, will be paired with his father, Dell, who played 16 years in the National Basketball Association, and Warriors teammate Andre Iguodala.
“I would like to win everything from here on in”, Day said on Wednesday. The top two teams with most points from each pool, plus one wild-card country, advance to Sunday’s singles matches. Guys like Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, and Jordan Spieth make it look easy, but it isn’t. “I just made one bad swing on 14, just didn’t quite commit to the shot I was hitting”. “My mentality is just trying to get it up there as far as I can”.
“I know that I’m now ranked the best player in the world, but I need to work hard”. But changing from a long putter to a short putter takes a lot of time and work, and now I’m back on schedule.
“I know Graham DeLaet has talked about it, that I was somewhat of an inspiration for him”, said Weir, who has eight career PGA Tour wins, including the 2003 Masters. I hit a ton of greens past year as well. “I have been playing tremendous golf”. Came out just how I wanted. Then I got a little unlucky for it to go in the water there.
“I think a couple of those missed cuts were pressing too much and just putting too much pressure on myself”. If it happens, great.
American Woody Austin holds a one-shot lead after a four-under par 68. You may as well get it up close to the green and try and hit it up in the air and keep it there.
“So it was tough but for the most part, it’s a pretty solid opening round”.
Glen Abbey is a par 72 at 7,253 yards.
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The other Australians teeing up in Canada are Geoff Ogilvy, Cameron Smith, John Senden, Rhein Gibson, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby and Cameron Percy. The fourth major of the year is the following week at the Women’s British Open before a three-week break in the schedule for the Olympics.
