![]() ![]() She just always was pushing me to try and get better. “Ellie never gave up on me trying to get back to the winner’s circle again. I never told my wife that, but I was okay with it, just because it was a very stressful part of my life. “To be honest, I was very close to calling it quits. “It was very emotional to go through and to experience what she was going through, then I had injuries on top of all of that going on in my life. “I was in tears for a little bit there (today), and to think about what my mum went through from 2017 on to her passing last year and then to know that,” he said. Credit: Instagramĭay revealed he had never told his wife just how close he came to quitting as he battled grief and his injuries. ![]() That’s when it kind of hit me.” Jason Day with his mother Adenil, who died in March 2022. “(The emotions) didn’t hit me until I looked at my caddy - and he had his back to me - on the first green. “This was the first one (tournament on Mother’s Day) without her so to have her on my caddy bib was special,” Day said. He said he had been able to compartmentalise his emotions until he saw the poignant tribute. Kim birdied the last to briefly join Day atop the leaderboard but the Queenslander held his nerve to respond and deliver his wife Ellie - greenside and heavily pregnant with the couple’s fifth child - her own priceless Mother’s Day gift.ĭay’s caddy sported a bib with his mother’s birth name “Adenil” and the inspired former world No.1 honoured her memory in style with his first tournament win since the 2018 Farmers Insurance Open. Watch every round of the LIV Golf 14-event season live and free on 7plus >Īfter seeing off Scheffler, Day signed for a brilliant bogey-free final-round nine-under-par 62 to secure a steely one-shot win over Si Woo Kim (63) and American Austin Ekroat (65). ![]()
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