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Kevin Kisner paid his dues to get to paradise

Ferguson, Doug

2016

Overview

\"I always remember I won a Tar Heel Tour event in Greensboro and I had to be in Memphis the next day for my U.S. Open sectional qualifying,\" he said. \"And I drove all through the night to get there. I remember getting there thinking, 'Man, this is brutal.'\" \"I look at it as experience. All that stuff is a culmination of where I am now,\" [Kevin Kisner] said. \"It's what makes me hopefully look the way I am on the golf course, as someone who is appreciative of all we have. I never want to be the guy that people say, 'Well, he's gone to the other side where he doesn't appreciate playing the PGA Tour.'\" \"I always thought what was cool was the camaraderie of the players,\" he said. \"We all holed up in hotels together. We all ate together every night. And we traveled together. You get in the car and four Tahoes would be driving down the interstate for six hours through the night, and that's how we got by. We looked out for each other. And you don't get that anymore. I have a family, and that's who I look out for.

• Publisher: Halifax Media Group
• Subject: Kisner, Kevin