He is also only the sixth Australian to win the Canadian Open, joining Joe Kirkwood (1933), Jim Ferrier (1950, 1951), Kel Nagle (1964), Greg Norman (1984, 1992) and Nathan Green (2009) on the honour board.
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Bidding to become the first Canadian victor in 61 years, David Hearn (72) finished a further stroke back in outright third after leading for most of the final round.
When tournament host Tiger Woods isn’t attending to the social aspects of the event, ones that will benefit his foundation at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club on the banks of Lake Manassas in Virginia, he’ll be looking to cobble together his game so he doesn’t make another early exit – such as the one he made two weeks ago during the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
Jason Day acknowledged at his Canadian Open-starting news conference that “the majority of people in here saw me fall on my face at the U.S. Open”.
“My life-long goal is to get to No. 1 in the world. I think the short game and just trying to get a good feel with links style was really the big thing and it helped a lot last week”.
LONDON, July 29 Injured world number one Rory McIlroy will not defend his title at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his withdrawal means Jordan Speith could take over the top spot in the rankings if the American wins the event in Akron, Ohio.
“For it come after what happened last week, and to be able to hit that putt, I’m just over the moon right now”.
“It’s something that I can be patient with because golf is kind of a marathon, not a sprint”, Day said.
“I was in contention on the last day”, he said.
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“There is no better feeling than coming down the wire and contending with these guys”.
