(Reuters) - Factbox on Australian Jason Day, who became golf's new world number one after winning the BMW Championship on Sunday.
EARLY LIFE
Born: Nov. 12, 1987 in Beaudesert, a small rural town in Australia's eastern state of Queensland, to an Irish-Australian father and Filippino mother.
His father Alvin, a struggling meat plant worker, gave him his first golf club at the age of six after finding it at a local rubbish dump.
Before Day was a teenager, his father had died of stomach cancer. Day developed a drinking problem at 12 and started getting into fights at school.