Part -time pharmacy technique? How be the best golf player of Canada

Canada’s open national team takes the central phase this weekend, which means it is the perfect time to control Canada’s best player. You got used to the name of Corey Conners on the tables in big time, but how would he start? Cleaning clubs and receiving help from his twin sister, as it turns out.

The interview below was first conducted as “UP Close” Q&A on the latest Golf Magazine number, which you can register here.

Scene: From his home to Jupiter, Fl., On Wednesday of a week of welcome.

Dylan Dothier: How does a child come from the small town Ontario in Golf and then really get, really good?

Corey Conners: Well, golf is really popular in Canada. Of course, the hockey is great in winter, but golf is a very popular summer sport, and I was lucky enough to grow in a small community with a nearby golf course. My dad has always been a thirsty golf player – he is still – and introduced me with golf at a young age. So I was lucky enough to have access to a golf course and eventually I started working there too. I spent a lot of time there in the summer months. I got my golf year value filled in those six months.

DD: What was your job when you worked on the course?

Cc: I started at the back of the store. I was like 12 or 13 years old, cleaning clubs, taking people’s clubs inside and out of storage, cleaning the carriages, a little of getting the range and then a strange work, filling the divotus in par 3s, some small occasional things. Eventually I moved to the golf shop. I would ride my bike up to the course. I worked there through the university when I had time in the summer.

DD: Is this the only job you’ve ever had except the current one?

Cc: Indeed, no. I worked at a pharmacy throughout the high school, so I’m a pharmacy technician as well as a golf player.

DD: by no means.

Cc: I had essentially two work through high school, which kept me very busy. Fortunately, the two jobs were accommodating if it took me time to go to play tournaments or whatever. Also, my twin sister, Nicole, had the same two jobs, so she was a kind of conditional release. When I needed a break time, she would go inside and take several extra hours.

DD: Nice to have a reliable filling.

Cc: She is a doctor now.

DD: Very good! She ran with the pharmacy corner, and stuck with golf.

Cc: For sure.

DD: You went to Kent State for college. All three of last year’s Canadian presidents – you, Mackezie Hughes and Taylor Pendrith – went there. How does this happen?

Cc: Returns to the coach, the herb page. He grew up in Canada before following Kent State himself and, after all, training there for over 40 years. He was one of the first coaches of the college to recruit so often north of the border, and was paid. Mac (Hughes) was a few years before me, and the list was always a mix of Americans and Canadians, but everyone had great things to say about the program, so we had a ton of entertainment there.

DD: Canadians in PGA Tour are a very strong group, and it seems you boys are always together in the rounds of practice. Who puts it in?

Cc: We have a group conversation, and you have to be quick because in many of these great events now, there are more than four of us, so if you are late to answer you can be the strange man. But every Tuesday we try to do something.

DD: You are leaving 10 balls in Masters, which is your fourth in the last six years. What is with you and Augusta National? What suits your eye there?

Cc: Everything from the moment you open the property is a special feeling, and I think the way the golf course is designed in my game. My iron game is definitely a force, and is probably the most important skill there. I don’t hit it long enough to be able to defeat the course, but I have a lot of patience, and with good iron game I give myself a lot of appearance and try to keep the stress level down there. You can get yourself crazy quite easily and I think just managing this and trying to keep things as simple as possible is my game plan usually. Something something I have been able to do quite well there. But it’s such a fun place to play it, yes, every result feels quite good. The more chances I get, the more we get a quarrel – I hope, I’ll be the owner of a green jacket one day.

DD: on- or outside the course, what is your favorite part of your work?

Cc: In recent years, something I really liked is traveling with my family. In the course, it is definitely a special feeling to be inside the ropes and have it as your office. Hard hard to defeat, so I know how lucky I am to have this job. The bonus is going to go to new places with the family. Of course there are challenges that go with two young children trips, but (my wife and me) use as much as possible and try to have fun.

DD: Your success has not just been to the masters. Two tours so far, and this year you have already accumulated five 10 best. Do you feel like you are playing the best golf of your life now?

Cc: I definitely think so, and one of the reasons for this is to make my game more rounded. I’ve always been a good ball striker, but maybe I fought in and around the greens occasionally. But this year, even if I haven’t hit the best every week, I have found ways to score and get in the mixture on the weekend. My focus has been to improve my wedge game and setting, so I have tried to put myself in unpleasant situations in practice and see if I can execute. I am excited with the way things are trending there; I will simply continue to sharpen. And then I just continue to be more comfortable in some of these places, knowing how to do it.

DD: What is something that is looking forward to the rest of the year?

Cc: All good, really – the main championships, so many good places in the tournament. There is only a lot to wait. But an exciting event for me is always RBC Canadian Open. I grew up following as a fan and being able to play in front of Canadian fans, this is really special.

DD: Is there anything that wants someone to ask you, but no one ever does?

CC: I don’t think so, no. Nothing is happening much under the hood here.