HP Byron Nelson Champs

[dhills2]

Aussies absolutely killing it in opening round. 5 of top 10 are ours & 3 more tied at 11th. Mind you it is a condensed leaderboard this early in the tourney.

Great to see big Jarrod Lyle putting in some consistent performances of late. I followed him around NSWGC in the summer and he was one of the most personable guys out there for sure.

Also good to see Elks sharing the lead with a few. Really enjoying his website 'Dirters' at the moment.

Joe Durant had two eagles today & is currently sharing the clubhouse lead with Jason Day... pretty eventful scorecard between 7 thru 11.

[Eag's]

Aussies are playing some inspired golf on tour at the moment, good to see.
It would be great to see Day rack up his first win. There are four Aussies in the top 16 with Day on top.
http://www.pgatour.com/r/leaderboard/

[backintheswing]

Jasson Day went to school at Hills International Golf School at Jimboomba, and when he was in Grade 12, one of the teachers/pros, quit the school and decided to go on tour with him as his caddy. Does anyone know if he is still caddying for him. His name was Col Swatton.

[TheTrueReview]

Jasson Day went to school at Hills International Golf School at Jimboomba, and when he was in Grade 12, one of the teachers/pros, quit the school and decided to go on tour with him as his caddy. Does anyone know if he is still caddying for him. His name was Col Swatton.

The commentators at one stage did refer to Day's caddy as his "caddy & coach".

[sms316]

Hopefully he inspires more kids to quit school and follow their dreams.

[KristianJ]

In that case, hopefully Jordan Spieth wins.

[chappy1970]

Jason Day is in my fantasy team this week :)

[goughy]

Jason Day is in my fantasy dreams this week :)

Oh Chappy, do tell ;)

Has a 2 shot lead with 6 to play.

[sms316]

Looks like he is set to take the gas. Mind you, so is everyone else around him.

1 up with 5 to go.

[Grunt]

2 up with 3

[dhills2]

1 up with 2.

[Tongueboy]

that Blake Adams is a laid back cool type. good to see Mark Hensby going ok

[Tongueboy]

they are both jittery

[Grunt]

Day just put his second on 18 into the water.

Make that both of them into the water.

[Jarro]

.. so did Adams

[Tongueboy]

**** me talk about choke! the pair of them!!!

[dhills2]

2 putts from 15ft & Day wins by 1 with a double bogey on 18!

[dhills2]

Day holes it for bogey & wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeewwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jarro]

Good win to Day ... shaky finish but he won and that's all that matters :)

[Tongueboy]

well

[Grunt]

was a nice agressive putt too, it slammed in.

[Dcanto]

Well done to Jason Day. Hopefully the first of many.

[Eag's]

Well done Day, great to see the young bloke break through.
Out of curiosity I checked shot tracker, day hit it into the piss on the 18th in rounds 1, 2, & 4 :shock:

[GolfBallWhackerGuy]

Thats awesome. Does anyone remember when he was on that show "The Cut"?

[Hawkers2008]

Good to see him breakthrough for a win after a couple of near misses. Back in something like 2004 he looked like he might have had the goods when he crushed the field in the Aust Junior championship at Yowani.

[BrisVegas]

That win should put Jimboomba on the map!

[Daves]

He is still only 22!, seems to have been around for years. May he win many more.

[chappy1970]

What a great Day

[gazgolf1]

Well done Day, great to see the young bloke break through.
Out of curiosity I checked shot tracker, day hit it into the piss on the 18th in rounds 1, 2, & 4 :shock:

He hit iron off the tee to take the water out of play, he then hit that iron shot fat and had over 200 yds for his second shot which he pulled into the piss.

[KristianJ]

What a great Day

I was about to say "Cue the puns...".

[jaybam]

Great win to the young fella. Was lucky enough to have a round with him down at THe Hills a few years back as i had a few friends that were members there. Could tell then he was going to go somewhere with his golf. Congrats mate.

[raidrboy]

Well done Jason his quality as a player of the future starting to show amongst the seasoned PGA tour players.

[Bushka]

Outstanding effort.

Love his swing

[chappy1970]

Picked up a cool $1.17MM for his troubles, Sim collected $67,700.

Nice coin if you can get it

[razaar]

He hit iron off the tee to take the water out of play, he then hit that iron shot fat and had over 200 yds for his second shot which he pulled into the piss.
Day was lucky to have a relatively less experienced player in second place. If it had been a top ten player it may have ended differently. Notwithstanding a win is a win. His 16th and 17th were key holes. That 3-wood on 16 was impressive.

[sms316]

Never met the guy, but Day seems like a strange prick.

[Hamo84]

Congrats to Jason Day, didnt get to see any of the last round but good to see yet another Aussie having success on Tour

[Dazza]

Never met the guy, but Day seems like a strange prick.

I used to know him during his junior days in Rockhampton. Seemed alright to me.

Big congrats to him! :)

[Sydney Hacker]

Never met the guy, but Day seems like a strange prick.

I'm sure he has only flattering things to say about you too....

[sms316]

I used to know him during his junior days in Rockhampton. Seemed alright to me.

Big congrats to him! :)
Happy to stand corrected. Not sure what it is, but I can't get excited about him at all.

[dhills2]

It was good to see my local radio station reporting on it first thing this morning... "Young Australian Jason Day has just taken out the Byron Bay Nelson's Championship to claim his first win on the PGA Tour"... :)

[chappy1970]

Dhills reported like only an Australian Media outlet can....buffoons

[dhills2]

Ah well, at least they didn't mention the 16 year old American kid. pgatour dot com reported more on Speith than Day in their first update after the tournament ended... they were probably trying to figure out who the f#$% Jason Day was!

[oncewasagolfer]

Good on him hopefully the aussies can keep this good patch of form going and have more wins for the rest of the year.

[TheTrueReview]

Good on him hopefully the aussies can keep this good patch of form going and have more wins for the rest of the year.

+ 1 Good to see.

[Courty]

Awesome stuff. I actually predicted a little while back that Day would make his first PGA Tour win this year. If I only I could predict NRL winners that well. :roll:

[mike]

That 18th hole was hilarious.

Great win and he'll win plenty more.

[Lucasto23]

great to see him finish the win off oh wait my recording ended just before his final putt :(

This is going to really set him up for the next couple of years and hope to see himing contending a crap load more in the next two years

[virge666]

That 18th hole was hilarious.
.

Wasn't it - everybody just choked, and then choked some more . . . and when you thought it was almost finished, some more choking.

And I was over the Speith thing very quickly, every sentence was "16 year old" this and "16 year old that", Sensational effort from the young bloke, but FFS, he grew up on the course and knew every blade of grass on the course.

Still sensational effort...

[Daves]

That 18th hole was hilarious.

Great win and he'll win plenty more.

Yep, despite his dramas, he putting was solid as and got him out of trouble more than once. His recovery shots were mostly pretty special as well. His biggest problem seems to be not being able to throttle back and hit a safety shot safely! plus he has got to get that Driver back on track!.

[mike]

Love his swingI don't. It looks a bit awkward to me. But then I only saw the closing 8 holes and he was fighting a few demons in that stretch.

[Tongueboy]

the yanks lay it on with a trowel! insular ****s

[virge666]

How good was Day's flop shot on 16.

That WAS the shit !

[TheNuclearOne]

great to see him finish the win off oh wait my recording ended just before his final putt :(

This is going to really set him up for the next couple of years and hope to see himing contending a crap load more in the next two years

For sure, he should kick on now he's broke thru. He's been in contention a bit the last year.

[mike]

How good was Day's flop shot on 16.
The one on 15 was better.
;)

[virge666]

The one on 15 was better.
;)

Ha - Well played !

[dhills2]

It was interesting to hear Blake Adams say afterwards that even though he didn't realise Day was in the drink he would have still played the same second shot on 18 out of the trees instead of chipping out then trying to get up and down to make par from less than 100m (my guess as to distance, I only saw a quick replay of the hole). This seems like BS or a silly approach given the scenario... after all, Day made bogey but only by sinking a 15 footer with zero pressure after Adams put himself out of contention.

Thoughts?

[Lucasto23]

Sounds abit fishy to me, granted if he felt he could make four there for the win why not ;) i know thats what i would have been thinking anyway :)

[PeteyD]

He's 16, of course he is gonna do the muscle shot.

[dhills2]

He's 16, of course he is gonna do the muscle shot.

:-s

[PeteyD]

Oh have I confuzzled the dumb amercian golfers up?

[idgolfguy]

Yup, thinking of Jordan Spieth. Blake Adams is 32.