If Tiger Woods is looking for a new career once his days as a professional golfer are over, he could do worse than move into sports psychology. Jason Day has revealed that it was advice from the 14-time major winner that has turned him into a fearless front-runner.

With his wire-to-wire victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Australian leapfrogged Rory McIlroy into second place on the world rankings, which were released on Monday. Day played a spectacular bunker shot on the last at Bay Hill to beat American Kevin Chappell by a shot and was quick to thank his friend Woods, who has won the event eight times and with whom he traded texts all week.

“One of the things he told me was ‘just be yourself and stay in your world' and another was ‘you know that you can do this and start your own legacy here’.