“I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We’re very respectful people, and very humble people… and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.”

I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

We didn’t have cable TV. We just couldn’t afford it. But you don’t need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.

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.

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.

So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.

When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal.

At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.

I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

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.

I 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.

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.

The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.

I knew when I got on tour that if I had the opportunity to give back to my community, which is Rose Park, I would.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

And starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked… And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line.

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn’t just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock ‘n’ roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.