I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
TONY FINAUI generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.
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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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Mini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
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At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.
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This whole golf thing was so left field for us, as Polynesians, but he had a lot of knowledge about sports in general. My dad was a genius, really. He was an absolute genius.
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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 a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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I know a lot of kids following in my footsteps, not only from my heritage, but there’s younger generations trying to follow in my footsteps.
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I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.
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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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