I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
TONY FINAUI always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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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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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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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I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it’s helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
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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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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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I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
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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 never seen it in person and wouldn’t go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn’t go until I played my way there.
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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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We all wanted to be like him.
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I enjoy the challenge of being a father… I try to do my best to be there for my children.
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There’s a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don’t have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.
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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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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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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.
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It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.
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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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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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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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