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 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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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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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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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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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We didn’t have cable TV. We just couldn’t afford it. But you don’t need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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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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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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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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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
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