What next for Jason Day after regaining Match Play and world rankings top spot?

Sam Barnard, Assistant Sports Editor | March 28, 2016

Australian sports fans may have been devastated when watching their cricket team crash out of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 tournament in India, but on the other side of the world in the USA one of their own lifted one of golf’s top prizes.

Jason Day regained the prestigious WGC Dell Match Play knockout competition trophy after making light work of Louis Oosthuizen 5&4 in the final after defeating defending champion Rory McIlroy along the way.

In doing so, he also returned to the top of the world rankings, knocking Jordan Spieth, who lost in the last 16, off his perch.

Day is now the man to beat

Day’s triumph in Texas caps off a fantastic 12 months or so of winning seven titles since the Farmers Insurance Open in February 2015, including his first Major, the PGA Championship in August.

Aged just 28, the Queensland-born Australian has now overcome early fears he may follow the likes of Colin Montgomerie, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia, as he finished second in three previous events of golf’s top four tournaments.

He has hit top form at just the right time, after claiming the Arnold Palmer Invitational earlier this month too, ahead of the 2016 Masters which start on April 7th, which he is now joint 13/2 favourite with McIlroy to win.