A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
TONY FINAUThe 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.
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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.
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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 always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.
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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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We all wanted to be like him.
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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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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.
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I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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