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.
TONY FINAUI have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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Mini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
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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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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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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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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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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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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 think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal.
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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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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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