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.
TONY FINAUI 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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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I know a lot of kids following in my footsteps, not only from my heritage, but there’s younger generations trying to follow in my footsteps.
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I used to think I was hitting a draw at times, and the ball was still curving to the right! I still prefer to play a little fade, but I’ve had to recalibrate my visuals.
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I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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There are a lot of variables to playing mini-tour golf because of the finances. If you don’t play well, you’re often losing a lot of your own money.
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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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I’ve had opportunities to step foot on the grounds and play Augusta and watch the Masters. But I always, since I was a kid,
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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.
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I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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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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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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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It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.
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