Beating Speith will make his Day
JASON DAY is one of the few players to have stared down Jordan Spieth and he now craves another head-to-head duel with the defending Australian Open champion.
With four major championships among 28 US PGA Tour titles between them, the former world No.1s are favoured to battle it out for the Stonehaven Cup when the 102nd Open begins today.
After a rare winless season in America, Day says upstaging Spieth would be the perfect way to end the drought.
“I would love to play with Spieth on Sunday, (in the) last group on Sunday; that would be the greatest thing,” Day said after the pro-am at The Australian course in Sydney.
It’s been more than two years since the pair famously jostled for the 2015 US PGA Championship, when Day finally broke through after three runner-up finishes to land his first career major.
The Queenslander needed a major-record 20-under-par total to keep Spieth at bay and claim the Wanamaker Trophy and knows beating Spieth remains one of golf’s greatest challenges.
Spieth, 24, boasts a Nicklaus-like three wins, three seconds and a tied fourth in majors since 2014.
If he’d won the US PGA last year, after raising the Claret Jug in spectacular fashion at Royal Birkdale, he would have become the youngest player to complete the career grand slam.
“His mental game is off the charts,” Day said. “He’s probably the most dominant player outside Dustin Johnson.”