Former World No 1 recreates Oakmont's conditions at home as he seeks first major win in nearly a decade

It's been a portion since Jason Day has been successful the winner's ellipse of a major.

His lone large triumph is approaching its 10-year day (Aug. 16, to beryllium exact) erstwhile the Australian took location the PGA Championship astatine Whistling Straits during a tally erstwhile Day was the astir ascendant golfer connected the satellite and ranked No. 1 successful the world.

But since then, it's been a roller coaster. 

He has battled galore injuries and went winless implicit a five-year span. In aboriginal 2023, helium was ranked 175th.

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Jason Day made his beforehand tract into his ain Oakmont Country Club for the U.S. Open. (TruGreen)

Entering the U.S. Open, helium ranks 39th. And portion helium hasn't won successful astir 2 years, he's been overmuch much consistent. He conscionable needs to shingle disconnected these injuries; helium precocious missed immoderate clip with a wrist issue.st issue.

"[My play crippled has] been bully astatine times, I would say. But it's been choppy, due to the fact that I'll beryllium playing bully and past evidently get an injury, and past I'll instrumentality a clip off, and past I travel backmost and I'll play bully again, and past I get different injury. So it's conscionable been … very, precise hard to get immoderate benignant of momentum," Day said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. 

"So I've played coagulated play and I've had immoderate bully finishes, but I conscionable can't judge we’re halfway done the play now, and I consciousness similar the year's gone very, precise fast, but obviously, erstwhile you're injured, you're sitting retired a batch and conscionable waiting astir until … your assemblage heals. So decent golf, could play a small spot better, obviously. Everyone tin bash that."

This weekend's U.S. Open volition beryllium the archetypal clip he's retired connected the people since past month's PGA Championship arsenic helium nursed the aforementioned wrist injury. But helium mightiness beryllium much prepared for the Oakmont Country Club successful Oakmont, Pennsylvania, than anyone else.

Day, acknowledgment to his concern with TruGreen, was capable to precocious physique his beforehand tract into Oakmont conditions: accelerated green, heavy rough, each the amusive worldly that immoderate U.S. Open holds.

A triumph astatine the U.S. Open would beryllium Day's archetypal large triumph successful astir 10 years. (TruGreen)

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"I bash person a play people successful my beforehand yard, and I cognize however important it is to person the close radical successful spot to beryllium capable to marque that happen. I'm preparing for the U.S. Open coming up, and we’re doing everything we tin to mimic the conditions that we person astatine the U.S. Open," Day said. "TruGreen handles that, and it’s bully to beryllium capable thrust past and go, ‘Man, that tract looks truly nice.’ It’s that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile things are heating up, and erstwhile we get to the nutrient of the summer, things volition adust out, truthful you request a squad down you to support things looking mint."

"If you’re connected a simulator, and you're playing Oakmont, you tin spot what the people is going to springiness you. But here, I tin turn the course, I tin velocity the greens, I tin turn the rough, I tin steadfast my people out," Day added.

While Day whitethorn beryllium retired of that No. 1 contention, a triumph connected Sunday whitethorn conscionable enactment him backmost connected that way that he's been dying for.

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"Being No. 1 successful the world, I knew however hard it was to get there, the enactment and effort and distractions that came with it. It’s hard to beryllium determination and accidental injuries person taken maine retired of immoderate momentum," Day said. "But a vocation is precise long. I’m trying to get these caller injuries down me, and if I tin person immoderate steadfast years and deed the shot hard, absorption connected what I request to do, hopefully I’ll springiness myself a accidental to situation immoderate of the champion successful the world."

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