Jason Day won’t be drinking from the Wanamaker trophy
The taste of victory is sweet, but Jason Day won’t be sipping from the Wanamaker trophy.
The newly crowned PGA champion said he has no plans to drink out of the heaviest trophy in major championship golf, weighing in at an estimated 20 pounds.
Day said on a Wednesday conference call that the Wanamaker “is just going straight into the trophy cabinet. … [It] apparently has not had any sort of liquid in it and I don’t plan to because I just respect the trophy too much to put anything in it.”
It’s a good idea since the Wanamaker is probably more appropriate as a dumbbell than a chalice.
For many years, the PGA Championship winner didn’t even get to take the Wanamaker home after winning. Eventually, winners were offered a chance to buy a small replica of the trophy, which has now grown in size to 90 percent of the actual Wanamaker. These days, the PGA champion gets to hold onto the trophy for a year, until it’s time to defend it.
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