Jason Day’s rise from a talented teenager in rural Australia to a major champion sounds like a dream story. And somewhere in that story lies the legendary Tiger Woods . It wasn’t any direct intervention by Woods, but a book about him that inspired the Australian golfer to up his game.

“So I was sitting there thinking, I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m 14 and Tiger Woods is shooting 67s and 66s, and I’m shooting 72s.’ I’m like, ‘I’m good. I’m a scratch golfer. I’m good, but I’m not that good.’ And for some reason, I decided to get up at four or five o’clock in the morning. Like, it was literally four o’clock because I know we don’t have daylight savings in Queensland, so it gets really light there. So, I was up at 4:00 and I was practicing before school,” Jason Day revealed in a conversation with

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