“So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.”

I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.

I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.

The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.

I knew when I got on tour that if I had the opportunity to give back to my community, which is Rose Park, I would.

I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.

My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.

We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

I had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.

The Ping 51-degree makes for a nice transition from the irons. On my 60, it says 8 degrees of bounce, but I grind it to about 5 or 6 degrees. I tried a head with less bounce, but it just didn’t look right.

I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.

I think there’s too many rules in golf. And I mean that’s easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.

There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.

[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.

Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.

Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.