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 FINAUMini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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It’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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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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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 had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.
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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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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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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 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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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 use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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As a rookie, I need to play a lot. I need to know what courses I like and adjust to the atmosphere and the lifestyle of playing at the highest level.
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