Jason Day is bound to put another near-miss at the Open Championship last weekend behind him quickly.
The Queenslander took Golf Canada’s charter flight out of St Andrews to Oakville, Ontario on Sunday night and tees it up in the Canadian Open tomorrow.
Day, who finished a shot out of the three-man playoff to log his ninth top-10 finish in a major, was asked at a media conference about his problems with vertigo.
The world No. 9 is accustomed to fielding the interest after his collapse during the second round at the US Open at Chambers Bay.
Since then the problem has been diagnosed as benign positional vertigo, an inner-ear invection. Day is taking medication for the problem, which was under control at St Andrews, but there is no guarantee that the problem will not return.
“I sound like a doctor,” he told the media conference. “I feel like I’m in a conference right now. I mean, if anyone has benign positional vertigo, I can fix you.’’
Day, who ended up tied-fourth in the Open, says he needs to be patient.
“It’s a process, but it’s something I can be patient with because golf is kind of a marathon, not a sprint,” he said. “I’m not on a time limit, which is great. I have all the time in the world.’’
Day is one of seven Australians in the field for the Canadian Open.
Golf Australia elite amateur squad member Ryan Ruffels is one who is playing in the field on a sponsor’s invitation, continuing the Victorian’s foray into the big professional events. He recently played in the French Open on the European Tour, missing the cut.
Ruffels, 17, has won consecutive Australian boys’ titles in the past two years.