Tuesday 1 September 2015 10:22, UK
Sky Sports commentator Wayne Riley has expressed his delight after watching Jason Day fulfilling his rich potential with two huge wins during a lucrative August.
Day made his major breakthrough at the PGA Championship following a number of near-misses in the big events, and he was in a class of his own at The Barclays as weekend rounds of 63 and 62 earned him a convincing six-shot win in the first of the FedExCup Play-offs.
Radar's fellow Aussie is a phenomenal 73 under par in his last five starts, and he has broken par in each of his last 20 rounds on the PGA Tour - one shy of the 21 consecutive put together by Patrick Reed earlier this year.
Another strong performance in this week's Deutsche Bank Championship could see Day replace Rory McIlroy as world No 1, and Riley believes he will continue to go from strength to strength.
"We know he won the Byron Nelson a few years back and then won the World Cup individual with Adam Scott and it was then that we thought we had someone special," Radar told Sarah Stirk at the Sky Cart in New Jersey.
"He came over here at a young age and has now backed up the PGA Championship with a win here. All the great players can do that, and if you're a mediocre sort of player you might get one win every two years, but this guy has got different ideas.
Complete package
"Let's face it, when you drive it like he does and you have the ability to putt that he does then you have a complete golfer. You have a money-making, trophy collecting machine.
"He has the whole package. He's a good looking lad, he's only 27, has a strong foundation with a lovely wife and young family. His coach is his caddie and his best mate, and the whole thing is shaping up quite nicely for him.
"The talent was always there. It could have gone either way with a couple of second place finishes at the US Open and the Masters and you could have thought that things weren't going to happen for him, but he turned it around and went and won the PGA Championship.
"We've known about him for a very long time because a few years back he actually said quite cockily there was going to be two players in the world: him and Tiger Woods. Everyone went 'what are you talking about?' and he realised that he was wrong to say that and grew up. Now he is winning FedExs , winning all sorts of things and is just the real deal.
"He travels around in a bus and his family and kids and two dogs all live in there, it's a great great story.
"I saw the interview after the Open at St Andrews where Day said 'I'm so close, I'm so close'. He said I can feel it coming and it isn't far away. He goes to Canada and wins there, and then goes and wins at Whistling Straits and now here he is at the top of the FedEx. This wasn't just a win here, it was convincing."
