Day, Pisani to play MasterCard Masters
BY Bruce Young | Australasian PGA Tour | 2004 MasterCard Masters | General | 17 Sep 2004
16-year-old Jason Day (he turns 17 in November), who has taken the junior golfing world by storm in 2004, has a big end of year schedule in line.
This week he received an invite to play at the MasterCard Australian Masters from the organisers IMG, and by virtue of his win at the Australian Junior Championship earlier this year, he also has a start at the Centenary Australian Open at the Australian Golf Club in late November. He will play the Queensland Open at the Ipswich Golf Club three weeks prior to the Australian Open, looking to win both the Queensland Amateur and the Queensland Open in the one season.
“I have not played at either Huntingdale or the Australian Golf Club, but am really looking forward to being able to tee it up in such great events,” he said today.
In July, Day won the Callaway World Junior Golf Championship at Torrey Pines in California.
He has just today completed a successful debut in the Australian Interstate Series where, representing the Queensland Senior Team, he won all five individual matches. In today’s final round at Royal Queensland, he beat the talented South Australian youngster, Cody Sherratt, 7 & 5. When the match finished with still five holes remaining Day was seven under par.
Day will be joined in the MasterCard Masters field by his fellow Queensland teenager Ben Pisani, who gained a start via the Australian Junior MasterCard Masters earlier this year in Perth. Pisani is just seventeen.
