THE AMERICAN EXPRESS

January 16, 2025

Jason Day

PGA WEST Pete Dye Stadium Course

Quick Quotes

Q. 8-under round highlighted by two eagles, how would you assess your opening round?

JASON DAY: Pretty good. Short game was nice. Obviously chipped in three times, that usually helps, two of those were for eagle, so that's always nice to be able to be in position to give myself a good chance at birdieing the par-5s here, because obviously you got to capitalize on the opportunities here. Early days, so three more days.

Q. Three courses here, going low, what's the game plan for the week?

JASON DAY: Yeah, as long as you can stay in front of like 6-under per day, I think gives you a pretty good chance. But obviously that, with that being said, I think the greens are firm, so I'm not sure what the scoring's going to be like this week, so it will be interesting. But, yeah, the goal was to try to stay in front of 6- each day and go from there.

Q. Two more rounds until you hit Stadium, but did you use that for your practice round, what did you think of the greens there?

JASON DAY: I did play the practice round on Monday. We played it during the windy day. 13, I landed it three paces on and it bounced 35 paces. So it's just, it is interesting to see, I'm interested to see the scores, see what the guys shot out there, and where some of the tee locations are, where they're playing some of the par-3s, what the best score is out there. Obviously this is really light conditions, I think they're going to potentially get a little bit windier conditions tomorrow, and then after that I think when we play it will probably be about 5 to 10. So, can't think about it too much really, to be honest, because it is the first day, and it's such a gettable golf course, all three golf courses can be gettable if you're playing well, so I just got to take it a day at a time.