WM PHOENIX OPEN

February 12, 2023

Jason Day

TPC Scottsdale

Quick Quotes

Q. Obviously a really good week. I imagine you feel pretty good. Just a few takeaways.

JASON DAY: No, I feel pretty good about how things progressed over the week. I feel that the swing is starting to feel a lot more comfortable. Which is good because at the start of the week I didn't have a lot of confidence in my swing. I actually texted my buddy playing down in Australia. I said, My swing, I'm not really confident in it. I just kind of was grinding away and I finished 5th currently.

But the putting's nice. Short game's looking really good. Good form going into next week.

Q. Obviously a hole-in-one in the group is always exciting, but it looked like you were really ecstatic for Rickie. When you see a guy who is also kind of fighting to get back to the pinnacle like he is do you feel a special sense of connection?

JASON DAY: Yeah, I've been good mates with Rickie for a long time. We came out pretty much the same year. I understand what he's going through. I think he understands what I'm going through as well. So it's nice to see him playing some really good golf because for a moment there both of us weren't playing great. I don't think our head space was in the best of shape.

Sometimes you feel like -- you're playing against the best players in the world, but sometimes it's just you don't believe in yourself and you kind of lose trust in your ability. It's nice to be able to see him back playing some really good golf. Because I played 18 holes with him today and he was definitely the favorite pretty much around the whole golf course. Every hole they're screaming at him.

But very rarely do you see a hole-in-one as well. It was nice to be able to see him hole out because obviously when he holes out they're going to go even crazier.