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.
TONY FINAUI generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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As a rookie, I need to play a lot. I need to know what courses I like and adjust to the atmosphere and the lifestyle of playing at the highest level.
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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 had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.
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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 always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.
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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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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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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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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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I didn’t have really much of a social life in high school, and I’m not really a partyer, so college wasn’t super appealing to me at the time.
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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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