Luke Clanton is touched in Canada and Pro, ready for his moment

Luke Clanton has prepared.

Before the first question answered as a professional golfer on Tuesday afternoon on the TPC Toronto in front of his PGA tour of the RBC Canadian Open, 21-year-old Clanton opened in a two-page statement.

“I didn’t want to forget anything,” Clanton said.

Thanked for his “Foundation” – Dad, David; Mom, Rhonda; And older sisters, Ray and Abby – all of them “laid the foundation for this moment” with his “love, belief and sacrifices.”

He thanked his coaches, mentors and teammates, and then various junior tourists and organizations cut his teeth as youth.

Finally, as he did faithfully, he thanked God.

“I know that a professional is playing a new world, and I can’t be excited about this moment,” Clanton said in closing. “I’m ready.”

It’s hard to argue. Clanton, who had just wraped his third and last season on the state of Florida, took on an unprecedented path to the big leagues. While Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent also debuted this week as the first player who graduated from the accelerated PGA Tour University program, was Clantan who deserved 20 points with his play, not with the help of a reward.

Clanton began to open up in Pinehurst last summer, without accelerated points before Jack Nickusa as the only amateurs for shooting three top-10 on the PGA tour in one season. Clanton still did one better than Jack, notched four top-10, including a couple of runners. When he cut into the knowledge classically last February, he marked the final point required for membership in the PGA tour.

“It was just really fast,” Clanton said. “Everything happened very quickly, and it was amazing.”

In recent months, Clanton was inserted with his team. He won four times this spring, including the NCAA Tallahassee regional at home course seminoles. He also captured the Hogan Award a few weeks ago, a formality. But sometimes the perfect ending is difficult to achieve, and Clanton found that it is on the last week’s NCAA championship; He closed in 4-over 76 after the final round within the top 10 individually, and his missed bird let on 72. The hole allowed Ole to miss the state to Edge Floridi with a shot to earn an eighth and final embroidery.

A year after Clenton lost the game with Aburn’s JM Butler as the state of Florida fell in the finals of the NCA, Seminola did not even do Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday.

And Clanton’s amateur career was over.

“It was hard to finish,” Clanton said. “The type of return and hanging out with guys for the last few days was a little rough. … but it’s something we all chase to become professional.”

When Clenton, with a fresh cut and without hair, they boarded his flight to Canada, finally hit him. All those nights that are rolled in the starch practice green in the village club Miami, the municipal in Hialeah, Florida, while David maintained an industrial size lamp.

David owned two companies, in arrangement and glass treatment, and at the same time teaching several junior golfers, including his only son, while Luke left 17 years and started working with the Jeff Leishman instructor. So, in order to be able to afford to let the ports go through private school in American heritage, David offered to do the school landscape.

Rhonda worked like a stewardess from Delta, which provided family free flights and Rhonda flexibility to the house at the school of her children and travel with them to the tournament.

And David and Rhonda are now retired, they are ready to cheer on the port while living out of dreams.

“My father and my mom never get enough loan for me on my way and my father I was gonna be the best in the world, and I didn’t believe that every day. did.

“It just shows that if you have a dream and you have a goal, you can arrive there.”

And now Luke Clanton is here – and he is ready.