I’m always playing on Sunday, and that’s tough because I really never get to take the sacrament – maybe once every three or four months when I’m home and have a week off.
TONY FINAUEverything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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I feel like listening is a huge part of life – not only listening to people, but listening to people that you believe in, people who you think are wise.
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Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.
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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.
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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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My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.
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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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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 never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it’s time to play in competition, you don’t want to think too many thoughts.
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Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.
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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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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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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