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.
TONY FINAUOne 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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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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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.
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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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Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I’d like to play in and win the most.
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I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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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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I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.
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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 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’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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