Jason Day Wednesday Press Conference 2024 BMW Championship

okay all right we'd like to welcome Jason day into the interview room he is making his 13th career start at the BMW Championship and he is our 2015 Champion Jason welcome um to the BMW Championship I know it's a tournament that you love but we can get some comments on being here this week it's good to be back here in Denver know we uh believe when was Cherry Hills John uh 2014 2014 yeah so it's been quite actually a long time since Cherry Hills um but I feel like this is a a great great Market to be in obviously Castle Pines is is setting up nice for a uh a good championship and I love what they have done to the golf course and also the clubhouse I think the membership should be happy about that be proud of that and then I think uh we' got obviously a great field here this week with uh you know the the top 50 um so I'm looking forward to a good Championship it's just BMW do doing amazing job um you know every single year we we come and play it's just you can feel it's it it's definitely different to to most most tournaments and let's talk about the state of your game as you tried to make eastw next week yeah uh that's like a a story that I'm trying to change in my mind obviously like I haven't played as solid as I'd like to um so I've just got to you know kind of work on a few things you know I've been constantly trying to work on my swing to just kind of feel you know a certain shot um and you know I'm just you know kind of working on that right now but you know overall like I feel like my short game's good my my putting feels good um um just kind of work out the swing and kind of uh find something this week would be good all right let's start with Cameron right here on the left yep hey Jay um if someone were to have said to you in in ' 06 when you were here that in 2024 you would have accomplished all this you know world number one you would have won a major he would have won several times would you have said no way or is is that is that at all no or what would you have said in ' 06 uh 06 I would have been excited that someone said would have said that to me obviously uh being from where I was and um kind of just starting out freshly as a professional um to to hear that that would have been amazing um but it was always you know a a goal of mine and Kohl's to get to number one and we had a plan to get to number one at like 22 something like that and then we didn't obviously get there until we were in my late 20s but um we ended up getting there which was good so we were always go driven um granted now some of those goals were pretty lofy like getting to number one the world it's it's very difficult to do there's a small percentage of guys that have done that um and I know that but I felt like I had the game as you know a young kid to to be able to develop a little bit more and be able to accomplish that goal even though um we still had the likes of tiger and Phil and and Ernie and these VJ and these big guys that were still playing the game um but you know looking forward from 2006 until now I feel very happy with you know what I've accomplished in my career um you know getting to number one winning a major um you know the the wins that I've had out here on the PGA tour uh some big ones um I feel I feel very grateful that I that I had the opportunity to not only win those tournaments but also be out here for this long um it's very difficult these days I feel like to stay out on the PJ tour just because of it's uh super super competitive these days um but it's nice to know that you know I've adapted over the years I've stayed pretty young even though I've had some health issues um I stay pretty young mentally and physically so that's been nice and then uh secondly Xander and Scotty have both had very special Seasons they they look a little bit different um if you could choose one or the other which would you choose and why uh I think once you get to a certain point you start thinking about major championships um it'd be nice for me to be able to you know cap off a few more Majors so I think even though I'm definitely not knocking Scotty's year because it's tremendous and phenomenal I think he is the player of the year right currently right now um even though zando is won two majors I I would probably go more towards the the majors just because um I want to add more Majors to my my career all right let's go back right and then we'll move up to B Jason in 20 sorry in 2006 you were still trying to find your way onto the tour yes I'm wondering if you have ever pinpointed a tournament around a moment when you told yourself I definitely can play at that level um try to think uh I wouldn't say it was a moment I would just say that it it was just a gradual buildup um I think 20 2014 was was crucial for me even though I didn't win in 2014 I I could just see that there were things building up um in my game that year what I was working on mentally the process that I was working on uh physically what I was doing in the gym and how my body was changing and how much uh more speed that I had gained you know with because you know at that point I was you know starting to put more I was put more muscle on than than what I had before and I started gaining more speed which made the game ultimately easier for me so it's not more so like a a tournament that like hey this is what changed I could tell you um exactly the moment where I started feeling um better with my putting but that and I know exactly the moment it was on the 10th hole at Hilton Head where I hold up B 60 footer and since then like my pting changed instantly but that was that's not uh the question obviously so um yeah I think it was just 2014 was huge and then going into 2015 winning at Farmers Insurance early in the year and then feeling like hey I'm kind of you know part of this tour now like I feel more established even though I had some great years before that I didn't have a lot of wins and then from 2015 on that's when like things started kind of falling in place all right let's go to Ben and then Bob well I know I know all about those great wins on tour Etc but tell me your most memorable uh money match with either mates or guys here in preparation win or a loss uh so typically we play Hammer at home and as a dollar hammer and I'm playing with Ricker as you know and he's a he's a good player he's a good buddy of mine we grew up together and I'm playing with Luke and I think um another buddy might have been David lutter but we're standing on the 17th hole at uh Mount bur and country clubs path three down the down the hill it's literally a pitching wedge and we all hit our t- shots and we just started hammering RI and we started getting kind of angry at each other so we kept on hammering and by the end of it I think it was like 7 he had a 10ft part down the hill left or right and it was for $780 from a dollar Hammer so it just goes to show how much we hammered and obviously Hammer doubles every single time you say it um but yeah that those can get out of hand pretty quick did he make it yeah he did I couldn't believe it which was insane because I would have guaranteed my friends I don't really take money off people but if it's my friends I'm 100% taking their money all right Bob uh just wondering if um you know you you had a lot of um at the Olympics you were very sort of moved by the occasion um was there any did did that linger at all like did it give you a boost coming back any anything that stuck with you that has maybe you know you've tried to you know keep keep in your mind to play well um it taught me that you know it's not always about um you know the money that we play for it's uh it's about like because we went over there it's one two or three and if you're not one of those you you're going home I finished T9 and I'm like congratulations you finished T9 you don't get anything you go home and it taught me the urgency of like hey I need to go out there and try and do something to to win which is that's what you need out here like I mean I think sometimes you can get a little bit comfortable out here and going yeah top 10 is not too bad top top five is not too bad but like when you are playing with some urgency when your back's pushed against the wall and you need you need to go out and do what you need to do that's that's a level of motivation a level of playing that like I would love to be in all the time it's just sometimes like you you just kind of get your own way and you're like yeah you know top 10 is pretty good here this week but like that's not the mentality you have to go out and try and win every single week so that's kind of what I got out of it was either got to finish one two or three or it's not good enough and obviously it wasn't good enough did you ever by chance look into what the Australian Olympic people pay their medal winners or like Scotty got like $33,000 or something from the US well I mean I was to be honest I was happy to be there I didn't look at I don't know how much they pay I heard I think it's Malaysia or Singapore was like some astronomical number um but you know that's life-changing for a lot of people you know obviously that's amazing if they can do that and accomplish that that's that's amazing but I think being from Australia and and the way that we view the Olympics down in Australia is is completely different to to most um other countries in regards to um whatever they pay out like I mean the the money that they pay out is just like a little bit of icing on top of the cake because like at the end of the day you're like trying to win a medal and that's as as Australians that's what we've always looked at it's like gold silver bronze did the person win the medal and that's like kind of our main focus yeah all right anything yep let's go right here front row sir mic thank you I'm curious even though it's 18 years ago do you remember anything when you went out there this week from 2006 I do remember the elevation change off one um I do remember six a little bit little bit of six I know they changed that I do remember seven know they lengthen that as well um but some of the other holes are just kind of all fuzzy 18 years is a long time but uh yeah I um that's kind of what I remember of the course I do remember walking up these steps thinking David THS has an amazing haircut though he had a visor on one time and I was walking there was not one bit of hair out of place um I was right walking right behind him but uh they're the kind of memories that I have and yeah that's the only what I can think of the changes of the course they didn't really strike you from then to now yeah it's kind of it's kind of hard if you I can't quite remember the like I mean what what I'm seeing right now is what I'm kind of getting and like it's almost like I'm seeing it for the first time again I can kind of get the gist I remember um telling Luke last week my caddy and I said look it's an interesting first t t bow you know especially with this wind it's in our the left and and the elevation change is huge and the ball stays up in the air for such a long time so um yeah I I do remember telling him that it's on a side of a hill and there's going to be a lot of elevation change a lot of and the walk is going to be hard that's what I do remember yeah thank you all right with Jason we appreciate your time best of luck this week thank you appreciate it