Originally from Canada. Joined Canada's development team when he was 16 alongside Mackenzie Hughes and Corey Conners.

Earliest golf memory was driving a cart into a pond with his dad at age five.

His first big purchase when he won on the Korn Ferry Tour was a $500 Dyson vacuum.

Is a Vancouver Canucks fan.

Has one sister, Stephanie.

Dominant collegiate player at Barry University, an NCAA Division II program in Miami, Florida; he turned professional midway through his junior season (February 2015) after he won his final two collegiate starts (for his ninth win in his final 15 starts).

Led Barry to consecutive team titles at the 2013 and 2014 NCAA Championships.

As a sophomore in 2013-14, he won seven of his 13 starts, set a single-season school record with a 70.05 scoring average, and won the 2014 Jack Nicklaus Award as the NCAA Division II player of the year.

Named the 2013 NCAA Division II Phil Mickelson Award as the Division II Most Outstanding Freshman.

Won the 2010 Junior World Championship (15-17 Division) at Torrey Pines, where he birdied the final hole to rally from a two-stroke deficit.

Won the 2010 British Columbia Amateur when he was 16 years old, and later won the 2012 Canadian Junior Boys National Championship with a final-round 7-under 64.