Jason Day: Australian wins first PGA Tour title in five years at Byron Nelson

Jason Day carded rounds of 64, 69, 66 and 62

Jason Day claimed his archetypal PGA Tour rubric successful 5 years by winning the Byron Nelson successful Texas.

The Australian's bogey-free circular featured a superb chip-in for birdie astatine the 12th hole.

It is the erstwhile satellite fig one's 13th PGA Tour rubric but archetypal since the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship.

"It's been a struggling fewer years, 5 years since our past win," said Day, who won the 2015 PGA Championship.

"The mode I played contiguous was truly special. I'm precise pleased and blessed with however things person progressed implicit the past mates of years."

Day said "just trying to get done a tourney was difficult" due to the fact that of backmost injuries overs the years since his erstwhile victory.

He added: "To beryllium connected the different broadside of it, to beryllium healthy, winning again. It's truthful bully to beryllium connected the different side."

Day started the last circular astatine TPC Craig Ranch successful McKinney successful a necktie for fourth, 2 shots down the starring trio of Eckroat, Ryan Palmer and Zecheng Dou.

He deed 4 birdies connected the beforehand 9 to determination into a stock of the lead, taking it outright with his sublime spot connected the 12th.

Kim, who changeable a good circular of 63, birdied the last spread to determination to 22 under, with Day knowing helium needed to besides find a birdie to debar a play-off.

A superb attack changeable gave Day a elemental two-foot birdie accidental which helium duly converted to instrumentality the clubhouse lead.

His triumph was confirmed erstwhile Eckroat could not deed an eagle connected the last.

Day volition look to triumph his 2nd large rubric erstwhile this year's PGA Championship successful New York begins connected Thursday.

World fig 2 Scottie Scheffler, who started the last circular level with Day, threatened with 4 birdies connected the beforehand nine.

But helium could not support up the pace, carding a six-under 65 to decorativeness successful a necktie for 5th alongside England's Tyrrell Hatton and China's Dou.