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Jason Day's act of kindness to one journalist makes for a great story

While there were expectations of a showdown of the world's leading players at the PGA Championshi...
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21.09 17 Aug 2015


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Jason Day's act of kindness to one journalist makes for a great story

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21.09 17 Aug 2015


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While there were expectations of a showdown of the world's leading players at the PGA Championship, it was Australia's Jason Day rather than Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth who took the tournament by storm.

Former Guardian golf correspondent Lawrence Donegan joined us on Off The Ball tonight and he had an anecdote about the winner.

"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. 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,'" said Donegan.

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"Day turned up the next week for 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'd think that's such a great story." 

Listen to Donegan's full review of the weekend's major action on the podcast.

 


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