Jason Day was emotional as he justified his decision to play in the World Cup of Golf despite the death of eight of his relatives in Typhoon Haiyan by winning team and individual honours for Australia.
The 26-year-old earned victory ahead of Thomas Bjorn at Royal Melbourne two weeks after losing his grandmother, six young cousins and an uncle in the Philippines disaster two weeks ago.
"It's just been an amazing tournament for me," Day told reporters. "My mother, my family, coming down to support me. I'm just so happy the hard work has paid off, and I'm glad it happened in Melbourne.
"The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week - just to be up there with my mum and support her.
"But I really wanted to come down here and play with Adam [Scott] and really try to win the World Cup and we achieved that which was great."
Day, a three-time Major runner-up, finished on 10-under par for the tournament, two shots clear of Denmark's Bjorn, to claim the $1.2 million winners' cheque.
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