AT&T PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AM

February 4, 2022

Jason Day

Pebble Beach Golf Links

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Q. 5-under, nice day. Get some comments on your play.

JASON DAY: Yeah, no, it was good, it was solid overall. I think I could have taken advantage of the par-5s a little bit better. I know that I had some opportunities early in the round as well.

But overall it was nice to shoot 5-under, so heading in the right direction. I'm not too sure where Seamus ended up, but, I mean, we still have two days left.

Q. You head to Spy tomorrow. Just thoughts on that?

JASON DAY: Yeah, I think, if it does -- we're supposed to have light and variable yesterday and today and maybe five to 10 tomorrow. So if there is any, a little bit of wind it's nice to be able to be a little bit protected in the trees there. Spy is typically one of those golf courses where you do have to be careful just -- it's not saying that being careful as in try and play defense, you just got to make sure that you keep that progress moving forward.

Q. If it is a comeback season or whatever a comeback season is, is this just another real positive step after last week?

JASON DAY: Yeah, no, definitely. I mean, to be honest, the last couple years have been a bit of a struggle, but I think more so it's a real positive, not only personally with my back and then when I get on the golf course I feel good.

So I'm not looking at it as like a comeback season, I'm just looking at it like every day what can I do to try to get better. And I'm super, super obsessed with the golf swing right now, which is either a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know how to take that. But I'm always talking to my coach every day and I'm always constantly working on it.

The good thing is I need to work on my swing because if I don't then certain things can creep in and I can hurt my back again. So I got to always be cautious of that.

Q. What is the comfort, everybody loves being in this area, but you really seem to love it. Why?

JASON DAY: I think it's just first and foremost it's just having a really good attitude. Like you can get some gnarly weather here, it can be pretty hectic with 40, 45 degrees, blowing sideways, rain, and I remember a few years ago we had hail on the third tee. So there can be some pretty rough days, but then you have days like this where it's, the last two days, even the next two days as well, I mean it's just absolutely stunning. And then when you're kind of walking out on Pebble everyone knows how beautiful it is.

So I love Carmel by the Sea, it's one of my favorite little towns to kind of go and visit. I just love this area. And I've always kind of just gravitated towards this area, especially playing. And I think I've taken maybe this event off a couple times or so but every single time that I don't play I see guys playing Pebble and I'm like, I want to be out there.

Q. You've done everything but win here. It's almost like you've been right there to win a bunch of them.

JASON DAY: Yeah, yeah, I think --

Q. You're due.

JASON DAY: Yeah, I think I'm very due. I played some really solid golf over my lifetime here. So I'm just not going to try to think about it too much, hopefully it falls in my lap.

Q. Is it anywhere in your mind that your ranking has to get up to get in the Masters?

JASON DAY: Yeah, it is, but I know that if I can take care of this week then -- like I was 123rd or 129 or something like that last week and I'm 83rd this week because of good play from last week. So I really just have to take care of the day-to-day stuff and then hopefully that turns into really good results and the confidence spurs one more good results. I just got to be really patient with that stuff, I know that it's just around the corner. If do I end up taking it off because my ranking is not good enough, so be it, but I'm thinking about long-term trying to get myself climbing that ladder again. That's the main process.