It was during an interview which took place in the week after he had had won in Turkey that Dubuisson went further than anyone would have anticipated towards explaining why he is a case apart. And why McGinley does not begin to flinch at the prospect of having him in his side.
"You wouldn’t want 12 clones, would you," queried McGinley, those dark eyes twinkling.
The question which prompted the revelations related to Dubuisson’s on-course focus. Namely, had he been as focused at school as he was at his golf?
Dubuisson grinned a little sheepishly before saying, "Well, I stopped school at 10 years old, so I don’t even remember going to school ... I was at golf, not at school."
It was at the follow-up query, "Did anybody mind that you were missing school?" that Dubuisson dropped his sad bombshell.
"Well no. I didn’t really have family so, you know, I was just doing what I wanted to do and I decided to be a professional at golf when I watched Tiger Woods winning the Masters when he was 21. That was when I said, 'I don’t have any future with school, so I prefer to go to the golf.'"
During his formative golfing years and, even today, Dubuisson has had an on-off relationship with the French Federation whilst simultaneously worrying why he is not more obviously appreciated in his native land.
Meanwhile, in a telling example of his “grass is greener” mentality, there have been times when he has sought to become a citizen of Monaco, or anywhere else rather than France. That, of course, is bad news for the Federation who want to have a French-labelled player firmly in the Ryder Cup fold well ahead of the 2018 match at French National.
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