Tiger Woods comparisons keep pouring in for Jason Day

Jason Day considers Tiger Woods a close friend so he may be less in awe of the illustrious company he’s been keeping lately than are many in the golf world.

Because the Jason Day-Tiger Woods comparisons just keep rolling in after the newly anointed world No. 1 continued his multi-pronged assault on his PGA Tour opponents with last week’s BMW Championship win, Jordan Spieth’s entitlement to the Player of the Year award, and the PGA Tour record books in which Eldrick reigns supreme.

Day’s scorched-earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season-ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five-win campaign since 2013.

Of course, two years ago was the 10th time in his career that Tiger scored five trophies in a calendar year, so Day has a way to go to ascend to the heights no golfer will likely ever reach again.

That hasn’t stopped even those with front-row seats to some remarkable championship golf — like two-time Masters champ Bubba Watson’s caddie Ted Scott — from publicly swooning over the Woods-Day parallel.

Scott gave the thumbs-up to Day before he completed his BMW romp, which he added to Ws at the Farmers Insurance Open, Canadian Open, PGA Championship, and The Barclays.

And while Day claimed that, as of Sunday, he would still vote for Spieth for PoY, the 27-year-old Aussie hoped to give voters some pause before they cast their ballots for the kid with two majors and two other tour victories in 2015.

“I still think it’s him,” Day said Sunday night after putting the finishing touches on his Chicago triumph. “But I’m hoping that I can go and win next week and get people talking about it a lot more.”

As the top seed going into East Lake, Day said winning the Tour Championship and claiming title to the FedEx Cup “might change some people’s minds.”

Not, however, that of the recently deposed top-ranked player.

“No, no way. No way,” McIlroy said a day before finishing T4 and a whopping eight shots behind Day’s 22-under at the BMW.

“Majors trump anything,” said McIlroy, who again lost the No. 1 ranking, which has bounced around among him, Spieth, and now Day for several weeks. “Jordan has had that locked up basically since the Open Championship.”

Day can take the cup by winning outright and, thanks to his lead in the standings, would still have a mathematical chance to cash the $10 million bonus check with a 29th-place finish.

A win at East Lake, by the way, would put Day in a tie with Woods for the most FedEx Cup playoff wins.

No word from sick bay, where Woods is recovering from his second back surgery in almost two years, as to which player will get Tiger’s vote.