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'I missed them': Aussie gun opens up on LIV exiles - CtrlF.XYZ

'I missed them': Aussie gun opens up on LIV exiles

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Jason Day has said helium has "missed" the LIV Golfers exiled from the PGA Tour, and looked guardant to them re-oining the tract astatine the US Masters successful April.

Hours aft the Royal & Ancient announced they excessively would fto LIV players vie astatine Royal Liverpool successful July, Day said helium looked guardant to erstwhile again sharing the people with the likes of Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.

He said the Majors deserved to person the champion players successful the satellite competing, but admitted immoderate of his PGA Tour peers whitethorn find it "awkward".

"Some of the guys that were voicing their opinions astir LIV, it'll astir apt beryllium a small spot much awkward," helium said.

"Actually, I missed the guys. I missed the guys that left.

"Some of those guys similar Phil and Dustin and Cami … it's benignant of bittersweet that they left, but I'm OK with them coming back.

"The majors should person the champion players successful the world, and I deliberation those guys merit the close to spell successful and play the large championships

"Will it beryllium awkward for some? Yes, but for maine it won't beryllium due to the fact that I'll beryllium catching up with immoderate mates which is going to beryllium great."

Since his past triumph astatine Wells Fargo successful 2018, Day has spent respective seasons battling issues some connected and disconnected the course.

Day spent a combined 51 weeks arsenic World No.1 betwixt September 2015 and February 2017.

But wellness issues - including a persistent backmost wounded that forced him into cardinal plaything change, saw him autumn retired of the top-150 successful 2021.

That fall, combined with the decease of his parent past March saw his intelligence wellness instrumentality a hit.

But aft 3 consecutive top-10s and a top-20 successful his archetypal 4 events of 2023, Day is backmost successful signifier and backmost successful the top-fifty of the satellite rankings, ensuring automatic qualification for the Masters, which starts connected April 6.

Day attributes his emergence backmost up the satellite rankings and awesome signifier to his enactment with show manager Jason Goldsmith, and manager Chris Como to rebuild his confidence.

"I believed successful my squad … and what they were telling maine to get my assemblage back," helium said.

"It was conscionable a substance of having the consistency of doing it implicit and implicit again for a play of time.

"I was lost. I didn't cognize what to do. I was not lone lost, plaything omniscient and assemblage omniscient ... I was mislaid mentally and each the assurance [from erstwhile helium was World No.1] had benignant of conscionable disappeared.

"It's a precise humbling acquisition going from No.1 successful the satellite to 150, but with the subject enactment with my manager and my trainers. I started seeing results successful signifier and past I started seeing results successful societal rounds and past from determination into competitory rounds.

"It's conscionable spiralled up."

Day's adjacent quality is scheduled for the Arnold Palmer Invitational astatine Bay Hill successful March, followed by the Players the week after.

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