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"FacebookPinterestON HIS SENSE OF GOLF FASHION\nIt&amp;#39;s always been a part of my personality to wear bright colors and different outfits. Even when I was an amateur, I&amp;#39;d always try to look good on the course. I believe it helps me stay comfortable. In a way, it makes you confident. I&amp;#39;ll usually pick my outfits. But if Nike has something they think will look good on me, we&amp;#39;ll work together to make it cool. The flat-brim hat is a new thing. I always wore a traditional cap for golf. But I wore a flat brim off the course. So I thought I&amp;#39;d try something new.\nON GOLF IN DENMARK\nYou might not think that golf would be popular in Denmark. But it&amp;#39;s growing fast. It&amp;#39;s the second most played sport. So many young kids are getting into the game. It&amp;#39;s because golf has become more cool. It used to be a sport for older guys. But with younger kids playing, it&amp;#39;s totally cool. I think you&amp;#39;ll see a lot more guys on tour from Denmark in the future.\nON BEING A ROLE MODEL\nIt&amp;#39;s different for me. I have never seen myself that way. But I&amp;#39;m trying to do my part. On the course, I play the best I can. Off the course, I conduct myself like I&amp;#39;m a symbol kids can look up to. If I can bring great young players to the game, that&amp;#39;s an honor.\nON AUGUSTA NATIONAL\nAfter finishing in the top 10 at the Masters last year [T-6], I know I can win it. But it won&amp;#39;t be easy. Every hole is a challenge. You have to know which spot to hit every shot. I played two or three practice rounds with my countryman, Thomas Bjorn. He taught me how to play the course. It really made a difference in how I scored.\nON PLAYING WITH TIGER\nI&amp;#39;ve grown up idolizing Tiger, so it was unreal to be paired with him in the third round of the 2012 British Open. I was so nervous&amp;#8212;especially for the first three or four holes. I got a call from Thomas [Bjorn] the night before. He&amp;#39;s played well when paired with Tiger. He told me to just play my game and enjoy being with the best golfer in the world. When I finally did settle down, I played some of my best golf ever and finished in the top 10. Thomas was right. You just have to play your game.\nON TURNING PRO\nThere was some convincing I had to do with my parents. It wasn&amp;#39;t that they didn&amp;#39;t want me to turn pro, it&amp;#39;s that my mom wanted me to get an education first. But I explained the great opportunity ahead of me. I think we made the right decision.\nON LIVING IN LONDON\nI&amp;#39;ve lived here for three years now. I love big cities. London is pretty similar to Copenhagen, where a lot of my family and most of my friends are. But what I really like about London is all the different nationalities who co-exist. It makes it easy to move there as a foreigner. I love going to watch musicals. I saw &amp;quot;Cats&amp;quot; recently. There&amp;#39;s just so much to do in this city.\nON MY SPORTS OBSESSION\nAnother great part about London is that it&amp;#39;s such a great sports city. I&amp;#39;m a huge Manchester United fan, so I&amp;#39;ve attended a bunch of games. I also went to Wimbledon last year. I love tennis, so it was on my to-do list. It felt great to cross it off.\nON WINNING A MAJOR\nIt&amp;#39;s something I think about almost every day. When you&amp;#39;ve come close, it&amp;#39;s hard not to. If you think about it often, it&amp;#39;s greater inspiration to do it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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