Day recently won the World Golf ChampionshipsDell Match Play tournament and the Arnold Palmer
Invitational the week before to vault into the top spot
in the Official World Golf Ranking. He is only the third
multiple winner of the WGC-Dell Match Play, which he
also won in 2014.
Day enjoyed a break-out 2014-15 season as he scored
his first major tournament title last year with a victory in
the PGA Championship and won four other tournaments
in 2015—two of them in the FedExCup playoffs. He
joined Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods as the only players
to win both a major championship and two FedExCup
Playoff events in the same season.
After his win in last year’s BMW Championship,
he moved up to the number one ranking in the world
and reclaimed the top spot during the Dell Match Play
tournament. After his win in Sunday’s Dell Match Play,
he now has nine victories on the PGA TOUR. He has
won six of his last 13 PGA TOUR events.
In only 10 years on the PGA TOUR, Day has won
more than $30 million, good for 21st all-time.
He held the lead after the second and third rounds of
the 2015 Zurich Classic of New Orleans before finishing
T4 after a 69 in the final round. His final score of 269
would have won or tied for first in all but three Zurich
Classic tournaments played at TPC Louisiana.
He has made three Presidents Cup teams and one
World Cup.
Fowler also enjoyed a break-through year last season,
winning twice on the PGA TOUR, including the
prestigious Players Championship and the Deutsche Bank
Championship in the FedExCup Playoffs. In addition, he
won the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open on
the European Tour in 2015. He ended last season ranked
fourth in FedExCup points and money winnings, a career
high in both.
He has carried his hot hand into the 2015-16 season
with a win at the European Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC
Golf Championship earlier this year and four top 10
finishes on the PGA TOUR so far.
He made the President’s Cup team last year, two Ryder
Cup teams and two Walker Cup squads.
“We expect to announce a number of additional
significant commitments in the next couple of weeks, as
players solidify their schedules around the Masters,” said
Worthy.
Photos for this story by Ryne Berthelot who has “retired” from Backspin. Ryne was a freelance
writer for Backspin who graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University and now has a fulltime position. We hope to see other work from him in the future when he settles in at his new gig.
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