Tiger Woods and Jason Day have always been incredibly close off the golf course.
Woods was one of Jason Day‘s golfing heroes when he was growing up in Australia.
It’s little wonder as to why. The 50-year-old has won a record-equalling 82 PGA Tour events throughout his career, including 15 major championships.
During their primes, Woods and Day were great friends, always bouncing ideas off one another and sharing tips with each other.
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Day recently admitted that Woods has given him plenty of advice that has really helped him throughout his career.
However, it was actually Woods asking Day for advice many years ago that ended up saving the Australian’s career.
How Tiger Woods asking for chipping advice saved Jason Day’s career
Day has enjoyed a stellar career in the game, with 13 PGA Tour wins to his name.
However, it has been slim pickings for the 2015 PGA Championship winner since 2018, with just one victory to his name over the past seven years.
Back in 2023, Day lifted the lid on how a chance call from Tiger actually helped save his career.
The 38-year-old had just won his first PGA Tour title in five years at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
He said: “When Tiger was going through the chipping yips, Tiger invited me out to kind of go over chipping technique and everything like that.
“Chris Como [Tiger’s swing coach] had seen a ton of 3D bio-testing of my chipping and they wanted to pick my brain, I guess, about what I thought and all that stuff in regards to the chipping.
“And I remember coming out of that meeting with Tiger and Chris and thinking, ‘There’s something about Chris’.
“He’s very quiet, listens very intently, but you could tell that he knew a lot about the game and knew it at a deeper level, what the club should be doing.“
Day then began working with Como in 2021, three years after his last win on the PGA Tour.
When talking about Como, Day said: “There was just something about him that drew me to him, so I just knew when I talked to him about the golf swing that he was very switched on.“
Jason Day came very close to retiring
Before linking up with the swing guru, the Australian was seriously contemplating hanging up his clubs for good.
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“There were definitely times when I thought ‘you know what, I’m done playing the game’,“ Day said.
“Just because of the stress it was putting on me and what it was doing to my health,’ he said on Monday.
“Mentally, I was not there and I wasn’t confident in myself.
“I honestly felt like I didn’t have the game and that maybe I was one of those guys that had a really good career and injuries hurt me and through the battling of injuries and trying to get back to the top, maybe I was one of those guys who was going to go out that way.
“But I didn’t want to look back on my career and know that I didn’t give it a good shot to get back.“
Thankfully, Day didn’t retire from the game thanks to the chance meeting with Chris Como.
Now he will be eager to return to the winner’s circle after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
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