From humble beginnings
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Australia's newest international golf star Jason Day’s first swing with a golf club almost caused him to fall over—he was only three years old.
Jim Tucker in the Brisbane Courier Mail newspaper provided an endearing report on Saturday of Day’s humble golf beginnings.
When Day first laid his hands on a rusty, cast-off three wood his mother Dening was worried about him toppling over. She cautioned her husband Alvyn on just that likelihood in the backyard of their old Beaudesert home.
``No. Just let him do it,'' he said. Jason’s mother said: “The swing was going to carry him away. He was just a toddler and the club was so heavy and so long. We let him hit a tennis ball. He hit it first time, second time and the third time. That was it. He was a golfer.”
Since losing their father, an abattoir worker, to cancer when Day was 12, he and sisters Kim and Yanna have always looked after their mum.
“I lost my job around the same time Jason won in 2007 (on the second-tier Nationwide Tour) and he said ‘Don't worry, I'll fix up everything with the house’,” Dening Day said. “He's a good boy. He did too. He paid it off.”