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Jason Day will try to win another Wells Fargo Championship this week and hopes a balloon will allow him to do so.
Day, the 2018 tournament champion, came to the Charlotte's Quail Hollow Club to feel pretty good. That said something, given the constant struggles he's had with back pain during his 11-year career with the PGA.
The most recent episode occurred at the beginning of April at the Masters, when, as Day bent over to kiss his daughter Lucy a few minutes before starting the first round, her back contracted again. Day decided to play through the pain. But he could not do it without the help of a coach who would look after him on the second tee. Day will stay in the rest of the tournament and finish tied for fifth place.
Day's strong performance at Augusta makes it a favorite when the Wells Fargo opens Friday morning (local time). Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Ricky Fowler, as well as Justin Rose, the second player in the world, are also considered good players.
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The health of the day remains a joker. After more than a decade of back problems, he is not afraid to try new and different cures.
"I was explaining the other day that I was blowing balloons," said Day after playing in the Wells Fargo Pro-Am. "Which is crazy, because I have not really trained at all this year because I have so much pain."
Day, 31, who seems rather embarrbaded by balloon therapy, says it helps to align his rib cage, hips and shoulders, reducing pressure on his back. It's a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes, twice a day.
"Blowing into balloons, that's all I'm going for," he says about therapy. "In short, I try to keep my ribcage down, my ribcage gets up and then it blocks my middle back and I can not really turn around anymore, so I pull it from somewhere and that's why my back is rising.
"I have a guy I pay and he's doing really good work with my back."
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Jason Day has had constant back pain during his 11-year PGA career.
The Masters episode was not new to Day. He retired from the Arnold Palmer invitation in March, also because of back pain. During his career, he was also injured in the thumb and shoulder and had a vertigo attack at the 2015 US Open (he finished ninth tied).
"It's hard," said Day about mental aspects related to the treatment of injuries. "You have an injury, you feel like the end of your world because that 's all you know and that' s all you do.You are a professional golfer and that 's all. It's a bit like you live your life.It's my life.Except my family, golf is that.
"Sometimes it's hard … never to think:" Is this the last thing that will push me beyond the line to hang up clubs? " Have a good wife, have a good support system around you, knowing that this is not the case at the moment. It's trying to build to find optimal performance. That's what you try to do. "
Growing up in Beaudesert, Australia, golf is all that the day has known, at least professionally. Like many golfers of his generation, he was inspired by Tiger Woods. His interest in the sport was stung when he read a book from Woods while he was attending a golf academy. He joined the PGA Tour full time in 2008 and won for the first time in 2010 at Byron Nelson.
Day's victory at Quail Hollow was his second and final final of the 2018 season. He would then get fairly pedestrian results the rest of the year. He missed the American Open Cup, tied for 17th at the British Open, 19th at the PGA Championship and 18th at the Circuit Championship. The day is without a win so far this season, but it has been close. He had five top-10 finishes, including the players (tied for eighth place) and his fifth place at the Masters.
The day was (relatively) painless at Quail Hollow in 2018, when he won the Wells Fargo by two shots on Aaron Wise. Day had played unevenly for most of the week, but he finished in style, with birdies at the 16th and 17th holes. He hit one of the finest strokes of all-time tournament on the normal-3 17 – who is wearing a lake – when his tee shot touched the flag stick and settled a few meters from the hole.
"Last year, I was just trying to get him in," said Day. "I had the impression that as the week progressed, I could not find the bottom of my swing or the fairways, luckily I had my short game." to support me It was a difficult weekend.
"So, being able to get through and push, you always learn something about yourself and see how much you can actually push yourself."
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