Players victory earns Day accolades, and perspective

REUTERS: Jason Day’s wire-to-wire four-stroke victory at the Players Championship on Sunday earned accolades from his fellow competitors, but some perspective as well Adam Scott described the performance by fellow Australian Day as “Tiger-esque” but another player said it was not really appropriate to compare anyone with 14-times major champion Woods.

Jordan Spieth, who vacated the world number one spot for Day recently, weighed in on Twitter, complimenting his fellow competitor.

And former world number one and Players Championship winner David Duval said Day was in a class of his own.

Day’s win on Sunday was his seventh in 17 starts. By comparison, Woods won seven times in a row in 2006-07.

And Woods has 79 career wins on tour, while 28-year-old Day, for all his brilliance, has 10.

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“Well, that’s Tiger-esque, that kind of a run,” former world number one Scott said of 28-year-old Day.

“It’s that thing I always try to explain how good you feel after one win and I try to imagine how good Tiger felt just playing about five years into his pro career having won like 50 events and imagine how you’d feel confidence-wise. “You can see it with Jason. I played with him one day this week in practice. You can see there’s that calmness inside him, calm confidence, and the way he’s walking around, he’s got that kind of unbeatable look about him.”

Spieth, who missed the cut at the Players Championship, was particularly impressed with Day’s six-foot bogey putt at the ninth hole on Sunday.