If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.
TONY FINAUIt 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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.
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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.
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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.
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I definitely feel it’s important, whether I’ve taken time off or played right before, that I take necessary rest time in the weeks before the tournament.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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.
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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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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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