01 September,2015 08:13 AM IST | | AFP
Jason Day romped to a six-stroke victory in the Barclays on Sunday, firing an eight-under par 62 to seize the lead in the US PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoff chase
Jason Day with the winner's trophy alongside his son Dash and wife Ellie
Edison (United States): Jason Day romped to a six-stroke victory in the Barclays on Sunday, firing an eight-under par 62 to seize the lead in the US PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoff chase.
Jason Day with the winner's trophy alongside his son Dash and wife Ellie. Pic/AFP
The Aussie, who ended a run of major heartbreak with his first Grand Slam title at the PGA Championship this month, backed up that triumph in style. He fired eight birdies without a bogey en route to a 72-hole total of 19-under 261 at Plainfield Country Club.
Masterful on the greens, Day rolled in birdie putts of 28 feet or more at the 10th, 14th and 15th in a dominant performance in the first of four tournaments in the season-ending playoffs - in which a $10 million bonus will go to the series winner after the Tour Championship in September.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson was a distant second after a 66 for 267. Stenson tried to keep things interesting, shaking off an early bogey with three straight birdies starting at the fifth, then trimming Day's four-shot lead to two after birdies at the 10th, 13th and 14th.
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But Day plumped his cushion back to three strokes with a 28-foot birdie bomb at 14, and after Stenson bogeyed the par-five 16th to fall four back it was clear sailing for Day.
He didn't take his foot off the gas, rolling in a 33-foot birdie putt at 15 and draining a 10-foot birdie at the last.
