For feel player Norman Xiong, less is more

“You don’t need to go hit a thousand balls to please people,” Martin told Xiong. “You’ve just got to make sure that your game’s good enough. You don’t want to just use that as an excuse … I didn’t try to tell him, ‘Never practice,’ because I don’t feel comfortable saying that, but I just tried to give him permission, to encourage him, like, ‘Dude, dig deep to find out who you are and what works, and don’t feel like you’ve got to conform just because.’