Jason Day enters The Masters this week with a huge weight off his shoulders after receiving positive news following his mother Dening Day’s recent operation.

Last month Day held an emotional press conference citing the reason for his sudden withdrawal from the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play was to be with mum Dening who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and would be undergoing surgery.

This week at Augusta National, Day happily shared with the world Dening’s surgery was successful and she would not need to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

“She went through a successful surgery on her left lung and she was told by the doctor, don’t have to do chemo, which is really, really exciting stuff,” a beaming Day told media in a press conference today.

“I’m very, very pleased and very, very happy with how things have progressed from the start of the year to now. And I feel kind of a lot lighter in a sense that my mind is not weighing very much heavily on the situation that my mum was going through.

“So to be able to have that happen and then be able to come here and get my mind off things, is quite nice.”

The Day family received an outpouring of support from the golfing fraternity and the World Number 3 was quick to thank his fans across the globe.

“I just wanted to say a quick thank you to not only everyone in the room here, through their well wishes and prayers, from peers, to all the sponsors to fans; the amount of text messages and e‑mails that I got and my agent got, I mean, it meant a lot.

“I was obviously going through an emotional time. But to be able to have people reach out to me and my team about the kind of situation that we were going through was very special to us.  It meant a lot to us and we really do appreciate it.”

“I just wanted to say thank you very much for the support that everyone has given me and my team and especially my mom. We’re very, very pleased to be able to get through this stage and hopefully she can live a very long life.

Day also said he hopes his mother can make it to Augusta for the first time in what would be a huge boost to the Queenslander mentally this week; he said having her on course would be a bonus regardless of his results.

“Even if I don’t win, it would be nice to have my mum here. She’s never been here before.  She’s never had the opportunity to come over here and she’s here now, so hopefully she’s healthy enough to fly down.”

However if Dening does make it to see her son play in golf’s most prestigious tournament he said he won’t expect a lot of helpful tips to come from the women of few words.

“If you knew my mum (laughter), she doesn’t talk very much. She is like, when I went over there, before I came down (to Augusta), I went over and I gave her a kiss and I said, I’ll see you later.

“And she was like, Okay, I love you.  And that’s all she said. She’s a woman of very few words. She’s only 4’11", so she’s really tiny and she can be very intimidating. I don’t say too much to my mum. She just kind of has to give you this look and I know.”

For now, Day’s mind is on the job at hand, adding The Masters victory to an already impressive resume.

“It’s great to even think about it. It gets me excited thinking about the possibility of actually winning and obviously accomplishing one of my life goals. With that said, I can’t get too far ahead of myself because, yeah, it’s only Tuesday and Sunday is a very, very long way away.”