I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
TONY FINAUThere are a lot of variables to playing mini-tour golf because of the finances. If you don’t play well, you’re often losing a lot of your own money.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.
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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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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 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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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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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 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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