Corey Conners Joins Smylie Kaufman to Talk Time at Kent State

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00:00The most interesting part about your journey up is where you started your collegiate career,

00:07where you played your collegiate golf, I should say, at Kent State. Taylor Pendrith,

00:12Mackenzie Hughes also on that team. How did all the Canadians end up at Kent State? I just have

00:17to know who was the one that got this train rolling. Yeah, there's always been a little

00:21bit of a Canadian pipeline to Kent State. And I grew up playing junior golf with Mac Hughes,

00:27and I didn't know Taylor as well until we started at Kent really. We became great friends there,

00:33lived together every year. But the coach, Herb Page, you got to give him a shout out.

00:37I saw him by the way. He was watching you guys at the Texas Games.

00:41Yeah, it was cool to be able to share that with him. He's pretty proud of his guys,

00:45and it was fun to have him there. And he was pretty pumped up. So I guess he's the reason

00:50really he recruited a lot in Canada. And like I said, playing some junior golf with Mac,

00:55he was a couple years ahead of me, and my mind was made up pretty early. I didn't really

01:00shop around much. It's just where I wanted to go. They had some good teams just before us,

01:06you know, knew we could kind of keep that momentum going. It wasn't too far from home

01:12where I grew up in southwestern Ontario, just a five-hour drive or so. Oh, that's great.

01:16It was kind of something as well. I've never really been away from home and obviously did

01:21some traveling, playing amateur and junior golf. But the commute was a nice thing. I was able to

01:28get back home a few times throughout the year. And yeah, I like that about it as well. But

01:33great program, great facilities. And Coach Herb Page did some awesome things and

01:39give him a lot of credit to getting us to where we are today.