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Aussie young gun Jason Day is hoping to follow up his tied second place in The Masters with a big performance in this week’s PGA Tour event – The Heritage.at Hilton Head in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Day birdied the final two holes at Augusta National to post 12-under and had Charl Schwartzel bogeyed rather than birdied the final hole the 23-year-old Australian would have gone into a play-off.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is his first outing since then after he skipped last week’s Texas Open but Day says he’s been busy since his excellent display at Augusta.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s been a roll straight after the Masters,” Day said. “I tried to relax as good as I could.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I had to do an outing on Thursday, had another outing Saturday and flew here on Sunday. I haven’t actually had time to decompress as of yet.”<\/span><\/p>\n

However, last year’s HP Byron Nelson Championship winner is confident he can build on his Masters heroics at a course where Australians have an excellent record.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a great golf course,” said Day of the shortish Pete Dye-designed Hilton Head which requires brain rather than brawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

“All the royal golf courses back home are very, very similar to this golf course. The old school, you know, you have to position, you have to draw it, fade your ball a lot, you have to work your ball.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think the new modern courses kind of go away from that. It’s all about hitting — the bunkers these days are at 285, 290.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Yardage book<\/span><\/h4>\n

Day thinks he’s matured as a golfer after he started working with a mental coach who told him to take control of his own yardages rather than rely on his caddie.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The plan was to have a yardage book, and with that it would help me play better. And it did.”
Jason Day on new coach<\/em> Quotes of the week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“I started working with Neale Smith, a golf coach, in February and he felt I needed structure on the golf course. I needed the plan. The plan was to have a yardage book, and with that it would help me play better. And it did.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’d go around to each hole, especially in the practice rounds and I’d sit down and say for these pins I’d hit it here. I knew exactly every time I stood up on the green or tee or fairway, I knew exactly where I needed to hit it.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Just focusing on that alone pretty much just took away the anxiety. I didn’t focus on anything else at all.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the first time Day has used a mental coach but he explained: “I’ve been working on my swing for six to eight years, worked on my body for ten years so the experience (of the mental side of the game) compared to my technical and the physical side is very low. So I’ve got to try to keep on building on that.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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