Is Jason Day now in position to steal Jordan Spieth’s Player of the Year award?

Jason Day’s fourth win of the PGA Tour season at The Barclays on Sunday may have opened discussion about whether the reigning PGA champ threw his golf cap into the ring for PGA Tour Player of the Year, but the man atop the FedEx Cup standings would cast his vote for Jordan Spieth.

For the time being, that is.

“Right now, Jordan Spieth gets my vote. Winning two major championships at such a young age is big. Winning four tournaments overall is great,” Day told reporters after blowing away the field in the first of four legs of the FedEx Cup playoff series.

The polls are definitely not closed yet, as the games move to TPC Boston for the Deutsche Bank Championship over Labor Day weekend. Spieth, who missed the cut at Plainfield CC, not only lost his world No. 1 status to an idle Rory McIlroy, but Day overtook him in FEC points and could assume the top ranking with a win next Monday.

A couple more wins for Day in the postseason, or banking the season-ending $10 million bonus, could certainly sway voters.

“I think winning the FedEx Cup and maybe one or two more tournaments, that could put my name in the mix for Player of the Year,” Day said. “I’m not sure. I’m going to leave that to the peers, to the people. That will definitely throw my name in the mix.”

There’s no question that Day’s name is firmly in the mix already. His run-away victory at The Barclays had CBS analysts Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo singing his praises as the best golfer in the world ... at least at the minute, as McIlroy would say, though Day has made an indelible impression on his colleagues as well.

“I think there was only one player out there today,” said Henrik Stenson, who’s closing 4-under 66 got him to a second-place 13-under for the week as Day was rolling to a final-round 62 and a six-stroke victory. “I mean, Jason is full of confidence, just heating it up, making birdies. It would have taken something really special to challenge him today the way he’s playing at the moment.”

Bubba Watson, who came in third, told his caddie, Ted Scott, he could not catch the streaking Aussie.

“I said, ‘Teddy, I’m playing good the last few months, and Jason Day is playing a thousand times better,’” said Watson, who lost the RBC Canadian Open by one shot to his new nemesis last month. “It seems like he’s my thorn right now.”

Bubba is not alone. Day has scorched his opposition to the tune of 73-under par in his last five starts.

But, wait. There’s more.

Those are certainly stats that would be good enough for Player of the Year consideration in any other year. But both Day and Spieth own four Ws this year — with Day winning three of his last four events as Spieth bombed out of New Jersey early — and Spieth’s two majors obviously trump Day’s one.

There’s something about the Day’s season-ending roll and the swagger that goes with it, though, that should give Spieth pause before dusting off a space on his trophy shelf for the PoY award.

“I have this great momentum going into next week to a course I absolutely love. It’s only positive stuff moving forward from here,” said Day. “Currently ranked No. 1 in the FedEx Cup, which is fantastic. I’m looking forward to playing at East Lake. There’s three more tournaments I would love to win, and I’d love to win the FedEx Cup.”

Until that comes to pass, however, even the guy on a major roll, who acknowledged that he has “played great and had a great summer,” bows to the 22-year-old Texan.

“Right now my vote is Jordan Spieth,” said Day.