This Jason Day story will make you love the PGA champion even more

Jason Day is a good man, making his win at the PGA Championship was a popular one inside the sport.

Journalist Lawrence Donegan recently detailed a story that exemplifies the type of person Day is, sharing it on NewsTalk 106-108 FM in Ireland.

“One of the journalists is out on Tour all the time and he’s not got a lot of money and he used to turn up every day with a shirt,” Donegan said Monday.

“So he’d have a red shirt for a Monday and a blue shirt for a Tuesday, and Day eventually cottoned on to this and asked, ‘How many shirts have you got?’ And he said, ‘Seven. One for every day of the week,’ and Day said, ‘Meet me next week.’

“Day turned up the next week [with] 40 top-quality golf shirts. He’s got a new sponsor and these were all the shirts from when he didn’t have a brand-new sponsor, and he gave them to the guy. I just think that’s a great story.”

Day, who came from a working-poor background in Australia, is the kind of person who will pay forward the kindness he’s been showed over the years. Golf has carried him a long way in life, and that’s part of why he showed such emotion even before the final putt dropped at Whistling Straits.

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