Cincinnati

"He said he had figured out how I was able to pull off the hiring of Don Polec so deftly and he put it this way: “Taft, my parent company in Cincinnati, tells me, the manager, what I am going to do. The difference,” he said, “is you tell New York what you are going to do.” And that is pure Capcities."

"There was no natural connection to the US for New Zealanders until Sky bridged the gap, Tataurangi thinks. His mother was a keen follower of sports and subscribed to Sky. ‘Sky opened my eyes to the PGA Tour,’ he says. He would watch professional golfers play in places like Cincinnati, then he would go and look up Cincinnati to find where it was and to learn more about the course. He says Sky lit the fire for him to go to America, which he did in 1994 when, aged 22, he was the youngest golfer on the tour. The most useful preparation he had, apart from practice, was having watched Sky. Consequently, when Heatley asked him if he would like to play the 2003 AT&T with him, Tataurangi had no hesitation in accepting. ‘Up to that point I was just aware of who Craig was and what he did and that he was a keen golfer, a friend of the game, knowledgeable and he always had a great yarn to tell, which as a young, impressionable person you always remember,’ Tataurangi says. A golf championship—with hours spent together each day through all the hopes and disappointments of a competition—is a fast way to learn someone’s character."