Day captures Wells Fargo championship

Jason Day knows what it’s like to give away a golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club. Sunday, he wasn’t going to let it happen again, as he won the Wells Fargo Championship, shooting a final-round 69 for a four day total of 272, 12-under par.

It was nine months ago that Day, then in contention during the third round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, took a quadruple bogey on the 18th hole, effectively torpedoing any chances he had at winning his second major title.

Thoughts of that nightmare crept into Day’s mind Sunday as his game began to wobble on the back nine. Consecutive bogeys on the 13th and 14th holes had helped a three-shot lead over Aaron Wise vanish.

“I was sitting there thinking, it’s happening again,” Day said. “I’m at the PGA last year. I don’t get it over the line and now I’m sitting there thinking Aaron (is) going to come back and win the tournament. I’ll walk off failing.

“I was kind of battling demons there inside my head, because the subconscious takes over when you’re not hitting it that great and you don’t know where the ball’s going.”

Day entered the final round two strokes ahead of Watney. By the time he had completed the front nine, he had a three-shot advantage over Wise.

That’s where it stood when Day got to the par-3 13th, where a poor tee shot set him up for a bogey. Day then drove into the lake that borders the left side of the par-4 14th, resulting in another bogey. He was now tied with Wise, who was playing in the group ahead of him and had just birdied No. 14. Back came Day’s demons. “You’re saying, ‘You can’t do it, you can’t do it, and you’re going to fail, you’re going to fail,’ “Day said. “When you’re not hitting it good, it just feels like the life is getting sucked out of you. You somehow have to just get rid of those thoughts and just push forward.”

Day steadied himself on No. 15, making a 9-foot putt for par. He then regained the lead when he birdied

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