Protocols: Jason's Definitely Been Talking Too Much With Tiger

World No. 2 Jason Day was looking better today after hobbling off Austin Country Club following day one at the WGC Dell Match Play.

He striped a drive off of No. 1 pain free, as Joel Beal noted here.

And he verified that he's picked up a bit of Tiger-speak in this texting sessions with his mentor.The dreaded protocol word surfaces...

Q. Describe the way you feel right now.

JASON DAY: It's not too bad. Yesterday it was definitely sore. I had a pull. It's a disk, when it gets inflamed the facet joints lock up, and then everything kind of goes into spasm and I can't really move. And it's really difficult to play golf.

I did a lot of therapy yesterday and made sure I did protocals every hour and felt pretty good. I felt pretty good last night. And came out today not really knowing if I was going to play or not. I warmed up very nicely on the range and decided to give it a shot. And I stretched pretty much on every hole.

Q. Jason, yesterday when we saw you after your victory on 16, you didn't know if you were going to play today. You not only played, you have blown Thongchai Jaidee off the map, what was it, an eagle and five or six birdies?

JASON DAY: Yeah, I didn't really know if I was going to obviously play today. It was kind of up in the air how I felt. It's the same old things that usually happens to me when my back locks up like that, the facet joints, everything gets inflamed, the facet joints lock up and I can't really swing. I got some good therapy last night. And then doing my protocols every hour and slept pretty good. I woke up and I'm on a Dose Pack right now, which is the steroid to try to get the inflammation out. A little pain, but for the most part pretty good. I came out during the first hole and that was pretty good there.