Australian golfer Jason Day will be hoping to break a painful four-year win drought when he steps out for the Pebble Beach Pro-Am tomorrow morning (4.25am AEDT).
But the 34-year-old Queenslander can achieve something special even if he doesn’t lift the silverware on Sunday.
Day can become the second Aussie to surpass $50 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour.
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His current career prizemoney tally sits at $49,835,755 but it will tip over the ultra-rare $50 million mark if he finishes inside the top 15 of the field at the end of four rounds.
Adam Scott is the only other Aussie to surpass the $50 million mark, and he currently sits seventh all-time with $57,389,329.
There’s only 10 golfers in PGA history to surpass $50 million, and Day will become the 11th.
The total purse at Pebble Beach is $8.7 million, and Day is considered one of the leading chances to snag a major chunk of that cash.
He finished tied third at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines last week, making highlight reels for an incredible long-range eagle in the process.
Day has won 12 times on the PGA Tour since debuting in 2008 – highlighted by the 2015 PGA Championship, his sole major victory – but he hasn’t lifted a trophy since winning the Wells Fargo Championship in 2018. Injuries and form have cruelled the Aussie’s career in recent seasons.
But his form of late has been impressive, and his record at Pebble Beach is also a green tick as he enters the 2022 event searching for a breakthrough win.
Day is one of only two players to have finished inside the top-20 at the Pebble Beach event in each of the last six years.
He has not finished worse than seventh at the tournament in the last five years.
A victory this week would complete a major comeback for a golfer many thought to be washed up and on the brink of retiring little more than a year ago.
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