Day found himself as low as No.151 in the world and becoming a genuine contender for PGA Tour titles, let alone the major championships where he was a constant factor and won the PGA Championship, must have seemed an eternity away.

Now however, a reminder of the old Jason Day has started to emerge with three top-ten finishes from four starts Day has shown signs of consistency and more importantly, looks ready to win again.

And now ranked inside the top-50 in the world (47) he is primed for a potential return to Augusta National.

“I wake up and I know exactly what I need to do and then I go to sleep and do what I need the next day to keep moving forward,” Day told Australian media this morning.

You can get into the nitty gritty swing analysis, terms like change in knee flex or reduction of pelvic thrust, that he and coach Chris Como have been working on. However, arguably the biggest change for Day has come in his mindset, where he is starting to believe again with faith in his body holding up, meaning he is ready to go toe-to-toe with the best.

Refocussed and training with intent, hitting balls whenever he can, a few familiar faces are helping him get back to the heights he once scaled. Day’s mates from Australia, Aaron Pike, David Lutterus and Rika Batibasaga working alongside one another on their own golf journey, constantly discussing the golf swing and playing a part in Day’s passion driven return to contention.

Australasian Tour player Aaron Pike is one of the golf swing obsessed crew with Day. PHOTO: Thananuwat Srirasant/Getty Images.

“Rika's always breaking into my barn here at home when I'm gone, hitting balls into the simulator, sending me videos. I keep yelling at him because he doesn't turn the computer off,” Day said.

“If you're around people that absolutely love the game, are passionate about the game that want to try and get better, that actually helps you in the long run anyway.

“To be honest, I'm very obsessed with trying to get better, trying to get like myself out of it.”

Of the crew of Queenslanders, it is perhaps Aaron Pike, who defends his TPS Hunter Valley title this week and finished in a tie for 46th on the DP World Tour last week at the Thailand Classic, who is most similar to Day.

Pike sharing many of the same experiences as Day in recent times, battling injuries and swing changes, he is also starting to see some improvements according to Day.

“He battled some injuries and he's going through a swing change and he's starting to see some progression with that, which is good,” Day said of his mate from their teenage years from Kooralbyn International School, a nursery of Australian golf talent where the former World No.1 also met his caddie Luke Reardon.

“If you're around people that absolutely love the game, are passionate about the game that want to try and get better, that actually helps you in the long run anyway." - Jason Day.

It’s important to note how easy it would have been for Day to sail off into the sunset given his injury battles and having amassed a healthy career prize money total, or even look at the avenue of LIV Golf and its upfront money. But the burning desire to compete against the best and play in major Championships still fuels Day, regardless of how far away that may have seemed.

“I definitely want to get back to Augusta. Obviously missing the majors actually has been really tough for me to kind of sit back and – obviously I get to play the PGA, but missing the other majors, it's really hard for me to sit back and kind of watch it.

Attempting to guarantee his Masters invite via the top-50 of the world rankings at the start of April, Day will head back to some happy hunting grounds over the coming weeks including Bay Hill for the Arnold Palmer Invitational and TPC Sawgrass for the Players Championship. Tournaments that Day won in 2016 when he was at the top of the game.

“The goal is to try and get back to No.1 and whatever wins come in that, that's trying to get back there. There are like little steps along the way to get back to No.1, if it happens sooner, great. If it doesn't, I'm just going to keep working hard and hopefully it happens somewhere down the road.”