We all wanted to be like him.
TONY FINAUThere 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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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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We’re going to tournaments, and we’re driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.
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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 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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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
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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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It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
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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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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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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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I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
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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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Having 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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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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