SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – There’s never been a better opportunity for Jason Day to shed the label of golf’s nearly man in the majors.
Yet to hear Day here at Whistling Straits, it’s clear that his biggest opponent Sunday isn’t the birdie-making phenom who seems hell-bent on capping an already historic season.
It is Day himself.
With a two-shot cushion over Jordan Spieth and his first solo 54-hole lead in a major, Day sounds as though he’s trying to talk himself into winning this PGA Championship, preaching “patience” and “discipline” and “focus.”
“It’s all the boring stuff, really, that you guys don’t want to hear,” he said, “but it’s really the honest truth that I’m trying to get out, because I can’t get in my own way.