Corey Conners Talks With Smylie Kaufman on Canadian Junior Golf

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00:00Growing up and playing Canadian junior and amateur golf, you know, compared to maybe

00:09America where it's much more of just like trying to get in front of the coaches, I would

00:13imagine that Canada maybe was a little bit more of a system where Canada golf is trying

00:17to get, you know, these guys out to where they can eventually be on tour.

00:21Yeah, there's there's not as many events in Canada growing up, they try and do a good

00:26job of creating some higher profile junior events.

00:30But up until I guess in my junior career, you know, college was a was a goal.

00:35So I wanted to impress coaches.

00:37But I mean, I guess I didn't really know what I needed to do for that.

00:43Just play golf had fun.

00:44They did have a good system in place and the Canadian national team.

00:49I think I first got on the national team right around when I had committed to go to Kent

00:53State.

00:54So, you know, they certainly helped develop me and, you know, get me ready for college

01:00golf.

01:01But yeah, I don't know.

01:02I think just got, you know, there's some big events, the Canadian junior championship and

01:06Canadian amateur played in a number of times, you know, starting when I was like 14 years

01:11old.

01:12So I think those events had some college coach eyes there.

01:15But it certainly wasn't anything like the AJGA sort of program, the US junior.

01:21But yeah, I did play zero AJGA events.

01:24I did play in California in the Callaway Junior Worlds.

01:29Yep.

01:30You and I both.

01:31I played I played with you at the US Kids Golf Championship in Jekyll Island, Georgia.

01:39I'll never forget this southern guy named Smiley.

01:43Wow.

01:44How about that?

01:45I did not know that we play together.

01:47But I remember playing at Jekyll Island.

01:49I still remember I got six because I was telling all my friends at school in the second

01:53grade that I was the sixth best player in the world because, I mean, it was the US Kids

01:58World Junior.

01:59It felt like, you know, that was accurate at the time.

02:01Absolutely.

02:02Yeah.

02:03Well, you nipped me by a couple.

02:04But OK, I do.

02:05I do.

02:06How good is that call back there from Cory?

02:08I love that.

02:09But yeah, they I don't know, I guess did enough good stuff and I got got noticed and got noticed

02:17by Herb anyways and it was off and running.

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