Why Jason Day Will Be Golf’s Next Superstar

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Published: October 19, 2012

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As a sports culture, while we enjoy the great athletes of our time, we have always had something of an obsession for the next "great one."

Ever since Tiger Woods began his domination of professional golf a dozen or so years ago, the question was posed almost yearly: Who will be the next superstar, the guy who will challenge Woods for the title of best in the world?

Pretenders and contenders lined up and faded away until Rory McIlroy started putting his stamp on the game over the past two years. He is the new Tiger, the player best suited to dominate the game the way Woods did.

Will that happen?

Who knows. There are no guarantees, but even as we wait for the 2013 season, we scan the golf horizon looking for the next great one.

Look no further.

I have the answer, and in this case, we will refer to it as the dawning of a new day.

Jason Day, that is.

Just a few weeks short of his 25th birthday, Day has already won over $10 million in a professional career that began in 2006. He posted his first and only victory in the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Classic.

In 2011, his fourth full season on the Tour, he registered his second-best finish in the FedEx Cup (12th) and a career-high ninth-place finish on the money list that includes the top 10 finishes.

In 2012, he finished in the top 25 eight times and had four top 10s. He’s a dynamic player, one who has a go-for-it mentality and is a crowd-pleaser. Rory McIlroy is the acknowledged “next” guy, but he’ll get plenty of heat from Day in the upcoming years.



Why?

Well, let’s look at a few reasons.

He possesses plenty of distance off the tee, averaging 309.2 yards on the measured holes. That ranks him seventh on the PGA Tour. 47 percent of his measured drives were at least 300 yards, the eighth-best total on the Tour. He’s pretty darn accur...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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