PGA Championship: Meet Jason Day - Golf.com

com in 2007. Just after he turned pro in 2006, Jason Day, then 18, headed off to the TaylorMade testing center, in Carlsbad, Calif. He grabbed a 5-iron and started taking cuts. "Sure," Day said. The most heralded rookie on Tour in 2008 is a self-assured, 20-year-old Australian who might one day surpass Greg Norman, Geoff Ogilvy and Adam Scott. He's won more in his teens than that trio, and now he's talking about out-winning even the game's sacred swoosh, Woods. ("If there's a gap in a tree, I go for it," says Day. In 2006, playing seven Tour events on sponsors' exemptions, Day made five cuts, including two top-15s. He failed Q School later that year, but last July, at 19, Day became the youngest winner of a Tour-sanctioned event (take that, Tiger. ), shooting four rounds in the 60s to win the Nationwide's Legend Financial Group Classic in Cleveland. In his next four starts, he finished T5, 2 (shooting a Nationwide-record-tying weekend score of 62-63), T13 and 3, assuring his call-up to the Show. It could arrive this month or next, or this spring or summer, but someday soon on a pimped-out golf course in a prime zip code, this boy who would be king will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the reigning sovereign. Not bad for a kid who grew up in near-poverty, whose first club came from a trash heap. In the clubhouse this past fall at the Albertsons Boise Open, a Nationwide Tour event, Day is. Source: www.golf.com