Jason Day Joins Smylie Kaufman to Talk Rise in Australian Golf

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00:00You know, being a part of this academy, so the golf Australian national squad, when,

00:08how do you get on that door as soon as you get to the academy?

00:12Is that when they're like, you know what?

00:13We want Jason day to be a part of it because that seems like to me, that was a huge avenue

00:18for you to be able to expand and play against some of the best competition amateur golf

00:23had.

00:24So yeah, and it's very important because I didn't realize how, and how thankful I am

00:30now to have certain individuals in Queensland and also Australia to be able to not only

00:38give us the funding to be able to go to certain places and play, especially overseas and you

00:43just take that for granted.

00:44So I was, I'm very thankful to those people.

00:48But so essentially what happens is that typically if you're a good player, you get invited to

00:54state squads and when you get involved, cause we don't like, it's not like America, Australia

00:58is very big, but we, we don't have many states like we do over, you know, in Australia that

01:04we do have in America.

01:05So I'm, I'm looking at, you're looking at the states that have the best juniors in them.

01:13And when you, once you start to join these, these junior squads in the, in these states,

01:17then from there you go away and you play this thing called the interstate series.

01:21So it's the best juniors from each state and territory that play against each other.

01:26And then from that, they typically pick the Australian squad from that.

01:31And then, yeah, so that's kind of how it happens.

01:34And then you typically play in the Australian junior squad and if you're really good and

01:40you start to play good in amateur events, then you get picked for the men's men's squad.

01:44So I remember representing Australia as a, like the Australian men's squad as like a

01:4916 year old kid.

01:51And yeah, I mean, that's, that was kind of it.

01:53Like I came over and played the Spirit International for Australia, which is, I don't know if you've

01:57ever played that one.

01:58Yeah.

01:59So I played that.

02:00There was a couple of other things that we were in the Australian squad.

02:03We went and played the South African amateur.

02:06I was super young.

02:09You know, but like we would get invited, I remember some of the guys would tell me these

02:12stories from way back in the day and back then I'd be in the state squads.

02:17So it was the Queensland state squad and we'd play this tournament called Lake Macquarie.

02:23And so back then everyone's young and they're 18 to 20 year olds.

02:28And then after the tournament, they're looking to go to, looking to go to go out to the bars

02:33and have fun.

02:34Of course.

02:35Of course.

02:36Say no more.

02:37Yeah.

02:38They walk into my room and I'm doing pushups in my room and they're like, Jay, you're going

02:44to come?

02:45And I'm like, no.

02:46And they're like, why not?

02:48And I'm like, I'm going to get to number one in the world.

02:49And I was just doing pushups in my room after the tournament.

02:51And I didn't, I totally forgot about that story until one of the guys, you know, this

02:56past year told me about it and I'm like, dang, I don't even remember that story, but it's

03:02kind of epic story now that like I'm in there doing pushups as like a 17 year old kid saying

03:08I'm going to get to number one in the world.

03:09And then all of a sudden I, you know, get to number one in the world.

03:17Yeah.

03:18Yeah.

03:19Yeah.

03:20Yeah.

03:21Yeah.

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