I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
TONY FINAUI think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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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Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.
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We all wanted to be like him.
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I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
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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.
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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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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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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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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.
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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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 something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.
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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.
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