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Tony Finau

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.
TONY FINAU

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When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.
TONY FINAU

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It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour.
TONY FINAU

Always Card Com Final Myself Prove Special Stage Tough Web Year
I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
TONY FINAU

Definitely Different Feet Flower Guy Most Quite Smell Time Tour Upbringing
The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
TONY FINAU

Club Crazy Driver Ever Hit Last Learn Thing
I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
TONY FINAU

Foundation Logo Low Mark Spinning Tony Use
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.
TONY FINAU

Book Different Game Many Mean Part Player Put Rule Say So Too
The Ping 51-degree makes for a nice transition from the irons. On my 60, it says 8 degrees of bounce, but I grind it to about 5 or 6 degrees. I tried a head with less bounce, but it just didn’t look right.
TONY FINAU

Bounce Degree Eighty Iron Make Ping Right Sixty Transition Try
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.
TONY FINAU

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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.
TONY FINAU

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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
TONY FINAU

Alcohol Beer Drinker Instead Real Root
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.
TONY FINAU

Back Community Give Got Knew Opportunity People Person Tour
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.
TONY FINAU

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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.
TONY FINAU

Color Favourite Goes Green Master Mom Pretty Sunday
I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
TONY FINAU

Away Being Biggest Challenge Family From My Road
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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