Donald Constable didn't earn his way onto the PGA Tour by being a pessimist. Yet as he makes his professional debut this week he's also a realist.
"You play golf to win, not to finish top 10 or top 20," Constable said from Honolulu, where the Sony Open begins Thursday. "Those achievements are nice, but it's not the goal."
So was that a prediction by the former Gopher and Minnesota high school state champ from Minnetonka?
Hardly.
"I just want to make the cut," he admitted.
Yep, just like the 143 other players hoping to successfully navigate the palm tree-lined doglegs of Waialae Country Club for a piece of the $5.6 million purse.
Welcome to the Tour, rook.
"These guys are the best in the world at what they do," said Constable, 23. "I know it's going to be hard out here."