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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.

Tony Finau

So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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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 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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I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.
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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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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 all wanted to be like him.
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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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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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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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 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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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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I used to think I was hitting a draw at times, and the ball was still curving to the right! I still prefer to play a little fade, but I’ve had to recalibrate my visuals.
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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 have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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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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 think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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Away Being Biggest Challenge Family From My Road
I think there’s too many rules in golf. And I mean that’s easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.
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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’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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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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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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