Jason Day Called Up Tiger Woods to Get Insight on Mental Toughness

Jason Day hasn’t had the start to his season that he wanted. Day, who has played in three tournaments this season, has finished tied for 10th, missed a cut, and finished tied for 11th.

Day ended last season with a spectacular run. The Aussie won a total of five tournaments last year, including the PGA Championship, followed by two FedExCup events at the end of the season.

"“I talked a little bit to Tiger last week on the phone, and just speaking to him … with regards to all this stuff, practice and balancing and dominating for so many years.” “If you’re going to pick a guy’s brain, he’s the guy. I can’t count how many times he said effort and mindset and everything, had to do a lot with the mind.”"

Day is right, if there’s one guy who knows about dominating the sport it’s Tiger Woods. Woods was a force on Tour for many years, and his mental toughness and “I’m going to destroy everyone out here” attitude is one of the main reasons he not only dominated the field, but intimidated them.

Day is hoping to change his mindset to be more like Tiger’s was while he was on top.

"“Once I improve the mental game for myself, this is the last piece of the puzzle for me, I believe, and I think I’ll be able to go out there and just kind of kill it. Talking to him, every time that I talk to him, it’s just every time it comes up, it’s mindset, mental, mental toughness, effort. It didn’t matter how bad it was; if it was a course that he did not like, he was just going to flat out-execute you. It did not matter.” “That’s that killer instinct that I need to get back like I had at the second half of last year, get back and take it into this year and go through with it.”"

This week Day will tee it up at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral, and his mental toughness will be tested early after he was grouped with world number one Jordan Spieth and world number three Rory McIlroy.

[HT DevilBallGolf]