PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Jason Day didn’t take home the trophy from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Four three-putt greens on the inward nine did him in en route to a final-round 3-over 75 and a 4th-place finish, his seventh top-six result in 11 starts there since his debut in 2008.
But he did take a moment to savor having his mother, Dening, with him this week.
In early 2017, she was diagnosed with a mass in her left lung that turned out to be Stage 4 non-small-cell lung cancer. Day withdrew from the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play during a teary-eyed news conference to spend time with her when he was told that she had only a few months to live.
But her cancer is now in remission and Day told the Associated Press at the Farmers Insurance Open that her scans recently came back “awesome.”
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Day may have been disappointed to fall short of claiming his 13th Tour title – it did mark his first top-five finish on the PGA Tour since the Masters – but he didn’t let it stop him from posing for a photo overlooking Stillwater Cove with his mom, son Dash and wife Ellie.
Day’s mom has been in the U.S. for more than a month, spending time with her grandkids after Day was forced to skip the Presidents Cup and didn’t go home to Australia. She is expected to return to Australia after the Genesis Invitational.
