I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
TONY FINAUThe crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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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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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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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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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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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 all wanted to be like him.
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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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.
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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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