There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.
TONY FINAUHaving a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.
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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 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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There’s a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don’t have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.
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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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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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I’m always playing on Sunday, and that’s tough because I really never get to take the sacrament – maybe once every three or four months when I’m home and have a week off.
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One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That’s one thing that I had to keep telling myself.
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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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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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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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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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Because 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.
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If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.
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