EDISON, N.J. — Few players on the PGA Tour are more popular among their peers than Jason Day, whose niceness is no longer construed as an impediment to his progress. Day is such hale company that he has become a practice-round regular of the more reserved Tiger Woods, the same Woods whom a teenage Day, in a rare moment of braggadocio, declared he wanted “to take down.”
Make no mistake: Day’s broad smile deflects attention from his black heart. Nearly a decade on, he still badly wants to take down the game’s top players. The difference is that he has learned to let his results do his roaring.