Day: 'Woods looks Tiger-esque'
“I said after the practice round at Torrey Pines that he's going to win this year. I don't know when it was, but he almost did it at Valspar, which is pretty amazing.”
‘Tiger is back’, says Jason Day.
The Aussie may be second favourite behind the 14-time major champion to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week and plays with Woods, but he had no problem to blow Tiger’s trumpet before the Bay Hill showdown.
Woods was runner-up last week at the Valspar, holing a miraculous putt on the penultimate hole to get to one off the lead.
“Seeing the putt go in on 17, that's Tiger-esque stuff. I mean back in the day when you're watching, you're like, 'Oh my gosh,' he pulled that off sort of thing,” Day said.
“I said after the practice round at Torrey Pines that he's going to win this year. I don't know when it was, but he almost did it at Valspar, which is pretty amazing.”
Day can understand Tiger’s injury struggles, as he also has endured back issues forcing him to spend time on the treatment table.
“A lot of athletes understand this, that when you're injured it feels like your world is ending. You feel like sometimes you get to a point where you're like, 'Oh, I've got nothing else to give,'” Day said.
“I've been injured a couple times and I felt like my career's over and I got really depressed.
“I remember texting him a couple months ago saying, 'How's it going?' And he's like, ‘Yeah, I'm starting to feel no pain. Now he's the favourite (to win this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational)?”
