Canada’s national open takes center stage this weekend, which means it’s the perfect time to check in with Canada’s best golfer. You’ve grown accustomed to Corey Conners’ name on big-time leaderboards, but how’d he get his start? Scrubbing clubs and getting help from his twin sister, as it turns out.

The interview below first ran as the “Up Close” Q&A in latest issue of GOLF Magazine, which you can subscribe to here .

THE SCENE: From his home in Jupiter, Fla., on Wednesday of a welcome off week.

Dylan Dethier: How does a kid from small-town Ontario get into golf and then get really, really good?

Corey Conners: Well, golf is really popular in Canada. Obviously, hockey is huge in the winter, but golf is a very popular summer sport, and I was fortunate to grow up in a small community

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