I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.
TONY FINAUBecause my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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I’ve never seen it in person and wouldn’t go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn’t go until I played my way there.
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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.
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It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour.
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I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.
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I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it’s helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
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I feel like listening is a huge part of life – not only listening to people, but listening to people that you believe in, people who you think are wise.
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I think there’s too many rules in golf. And I mean that’s easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.
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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.
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The Ping 51-degree makes for a nice transition from the irons. On my 60, it says 8 degrees of bounce, but I grind it to about 5 or 6 degrees. I tried a head with less bounce, but it just didn’t look right.
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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.
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I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.
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I enjoy the challenge of being a father… I try to do my best to be there for my children.
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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
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At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.
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I think it’s a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn’t matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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Golf is an extremely expensive sport, and growing up, I didn’t come from a lot, but my parents sacrificed a lot for me to compete, and my goals were their goals.
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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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