Glen Day says there’s no truth to the rumor he has to play well at the Rapiscan Systems Classic this week in order to pay for the wedding of his oldest daughter last weekend.

“We won’t get into that,” Day laughed. “But we had a lot of fun.”

The wedding was in Oxford, Mississippi, some 300 miles up the road from Biloxi, where the PGA TOUR Champions schedule resumes after a three-week hiatus for the Rapsican Systems Classic.

The event at Fallen Oak just so happens to be one of the best for Day, 53. He’ll be making his fourth start there, and his other three resulted in top-10 finishes.

Day grew up in Poplarville, Mississippi, about an hour from Biloxi. So it’s an event where plenty of family and friends can make the short trip to watch him play.

“It’s good to see everybody,” said Day, who has two T6s and a T9 at Fallen Oak. “Sometimes it’s good to have all of your friends and family there, and sometimes it’s bad, you know what I mean? But it has been good for me. It distracts you a little bit. As long as you don’t let it distract you too much.

“The golf course … if it’s not the best course we play it’s in the top three every year. This year maybe Oak Hill and Firestone … maybe. Other than that this is the best course we play. Everybody knows it. It’s in great shape. The greens are always good. For whatever reason I just play well here.”

Surely it must set up well for Day. Right?

“Nope,” Day said. “That’s the weird part.”

Yes, while he admires the course there’s nothing about it he feels is particularly suited to his game. He’s at as much of a loss to explain his good finishes at Fallen Oak as he is his bad ones at Tucson (Arizona) National, site of the Cologuard Classic.

In four starts in the desert, Day’s best finish is a T26. This year he was T59.

“That’s a course I I love,” Day said. “I always think I’m going to do great there. It’s a perfect golf course setup for me, and I’ve never played well there. Ever. Sure enough, same thing. I think I was No. 1 in driving that week. I don’t understand. We got nothing there.”

So far Day doesn’t have much to show for his four starts in 2019. He opened the season with a T46 at the Oasis Championship, had a season-best T11 at the Chubb Classic, the T59 at the Cologuard and a T24 at the Hoag Classic in which he shot the consecutive 1-under 70s.

Day, who had six top 10s a year ago and finished 25th in the Schwab Cup race, can’t point to any problems with his game. He ranks inside the top 35 in nearly every meaningful statistical category. Sure, he could make a few more putts (he ranks 32nd in putting average), but he’s 13th in driving accuracy and 22nd in greens in regulation.

“I’m playing fine,” Day said. “You know, it’s just maybe a little mental thought here or there. Just something small. Nothing major at all.”

Take the Hoag, for instance. Day went to the 54th hole at 4 under for the tournament, 2 under for his round. The 18th is a par five which he had birdied the first two days. So realistically he was looking at a 5-under finish and sliding into the top 10.

Instead, Day bogeyed the final hole and ended up tied for 24th.

“I hate Poa Annua. I just hate it,” Day said. “I three-putted there and dropped 11 spots. So everything is right there. It’s just … you make a putt and then you get a good bounce and then you make a putt on the next hole as opposed to hit a really good putt that lips out and then you make a mistake on the next hole. That’s the difference.”

Day is looking for his first win on PGA TOUR Champions. His lone win on the PGA TOUR came at the 1999 MCI Classic, in a playoff over Jeff Sluman and Payne Stewart.

What will it take to get one out here?

“It takes me getting out of my own way,” Day said. “It’s gonna take just going to play golf. It’s gonna happen when I’m not paying attention.

“I’ve had opportunities over the three years. Plenty of them. I should have won a couple of times. I tried too hard maybe at the wrong time instead of just letting it happen. I just have to let it happen.”

In front of family and friends, a little distracted … this might be a great week to just let it happen.