Jason Day back on a high ahead of The Players Championship
Wednesday 9 May 2018 21:01, UK
Jason Day is in a confident mood as he goes in search of back-to-back PGA Tour victories at The Players Championship.
The 30-year-old Australian is among the favourites to win at TPC Sawgrass this week after winning last week's Wells Fargo Championship and he is more than happy with his short game after struggling with it last year.
Day, who won The Players Championship by four strokes in 2016, said: "I think that the short game is where it needs to be.
"I just did a little bit of work over the last couple days on my long game to try and straighten it out, and it feels like it's finally coming around nicely, and I'm looking forward to trying to get my second Players Championship this week.
"I think I'm really close to playing probably some of the best golf of my life, I've just got to just keep working at it.
"The course is in tremendous shape. I know the guys are chomping at the bit to get things started, and I think we're going to have some good weather. So that's all good things. So I'm excited about it."
Day failed to win last year but has also won the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines this season and he has identified his improved chipping as one of the factors behind his return to form, which should stand him in good stead this week.
"I'm chipping it much better," he said. "Not so worried about holing chip shots anymore, just get them up-and-down. And it worked out great last week for me.
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"But there was that part of it, too, because I think I lost a little bit of confidence in my game because I didn't have the usual weapon that I usually have is get the ball up-and-down, even when I'm scrambling around, in amongst the personal stuff that I had.
"But getting my short game back gives me a lot of confidence. Even though when I'm not hitting it great I know that I can still get it up-and-down from anywhere.
"That gives me confidence going forward knowing that if I just hit it half decent I'm going to play good.
"And I've been driving it really well this season, giving myself a lot of opportunities, and I've been saying for a while now that my iron play's not quite there but it's on the mend. It's starting to show some signs, which is nice.
"I think if I can do that, keep driving it the way I have been, tighten up the irons, then I honestly feel like I can win every week, but I know that's tough to do."
