When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
TONY FINAUIt’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.
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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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Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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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.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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This whole golf thing was so left field for us, as Polynesians, but he had a lot of knowledge about sports in general. My dad was a genius, really. He was an absolute genius.
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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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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.
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One 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’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.
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