Jason Day Joins Smylie Kaufman to Talk Swing Coach Colin Swatton

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00:00I see that you turned pro, Jason, in 2006. And I guess when you just kind of talk about Colin

00:06Swatton, I'm generally curious too about when did Colin decide, you know what, I'm going to be with

00:12you every step of the way in this because you guys had a 20-year partnership. And I'm just curious

00:17from, you know, he could have easily just stayed back in Australia, but he went with you this

00:21entire time. Is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So at the time when I was thinking about turning

00:28professional, he actually went around and tried to search for caddies to try and like say, hey,

00:38like try out this guy, try out this guy and see what you like. And then we, I think we test drove

00:42like a couple of caddies in professional events. And I'm like, it just, I just, the chemistry

00:47wasn't there. And then when I turned professional, he like said, hey, what would you think if I

00:52started to caddy for you? I'm like, great. And what I'm so thankful about Colin and what he did

00:59for me, you know, obviously he gave me structure when I was a kid, but we always with forward

01:06thinking, we always had a goal in mind. We always like, I remember saying, we're talking about it.

01:11He's like, it almost like it was his goal, but like he kind of turned it into my goal. We're

01:16like, hey, we want to get to number one in the world by 22. I don't know why it was 22,

01:20but I think we ended up getting to like number five in the world by 23. And obviously number

01:25one in the world by 27 or something like that. But like, it was, it was always, hey,

01:31forward thinking, what do we need to do? What are the steps and what are the processes

01:35that we need to do to take, to get to these goals and having him on the bag.

01:40Like he was a very, very important part of my success in my career, just because of

01:44we always focused and we had that mindset of pushing forward.