He didn't have an experience growing up in America as a nerdy, scrawny Asian kid.
"It's a very weird experience growing up in a house of secrets," Mr. Bromell said.
McCormick anticipated that Spieth would experience growing pains in his first few tournaments.
As is often the case, each sister had a different experience growing up.
Was it strange to play a teenager who had such a different experience growing up?
"I think it's just experience, growing up, learning each other's nuances.
But certainly my experience growing up was of this great sense of freedom".
In reality, Hale told me, "I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks".
"A lot of the [adults] in this community didn't have this impression, memory, or experience growing up," he said.
"That was never my experience growing up and certainly not at Broad Hill (the elderly care home in Derek).
"It's a very weird experience growing up in a house of secrets," he said of his father.
