Jason Day Calls Tiger Woods for Advice

With just one top-10 finish in three PGA Tour events this season, Jason Day is at a point where he needs to figure out his game or risk falling further behind players like Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy. 

Per ESPN.com's Jason Sobel, in an effort to get his game back on track, Day said that he placed a phone call to Tiger Woods: "He had nothing else, I guess. He was just sitting at his home and I just called."

As far as the details of their conversation, which Day said lasted about 30 minutes, he noted it revolved around the mental aspect of golf more than swing mechanics: 

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Every time that I talk to him, it's mindset, mental toughness, effort. It didn't matter how bad it was; if it was a course that he did not like, he was just going to flat out-execute you. It did not matter. That's that killer instinct that I need to get back like I had at the second half of last year, get back and take it into this year and go through with it.

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One of the big topics Day said was discussed involved trying to deal with expectations after so much success: "That's one of the main reasons why I called Tiger was to ask him about stuff like that, because he dealt with it so great and he wanted it for so long, and that's the biggest key was want."

Day is coming off his best year on tour. The 28-year-old won five tournaments, including the PGA Championship, in 2015 and had a brief run as the top-ranked player in the official world golf rankings. 

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This year started well enough for Day, as he finished 10th at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, but he missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open thanks to a 74 in the second round and finished 11th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after shooting a 73 in the final round. 

The PGA Tour scheduling crew put pressure on Day heading into this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship, as he is in a group with Spieth and McIlroy on Thursday. 

It's too early to hit the panic button for Day, who is still ranked second in the official world rankings, but it's been evident so far that this isn't the same player who dominated the PGA Tour last year. He had more victories last season than Spieth in addition to capturing his first major. 

Getting advice from Woods, who may be past his prime but still understands the mentality it takes to deal with sky-high expectations, is not the worst thing Day can do. He just needs to block out all the noise and get back to playing his game, which everyone saw last year is as good as any player on tour.