Before he answered his first questions as a professional golfer on Tuesday afternoon at TPC Toronto ahead of his PGA Tour debut at the RBC Canadian Open, the 21-year-old Clanton opened with a two-page statement he had typed out a couple days earlier.

The 21-year-old was asked at the RBC Canadian Open if he considered joining LIV Golf, but Clanton said the decision to play the PGA Tour was “simple.”