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.
TONY FINAUWe 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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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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So I definitely take time to realize where I’m at in my life. And I know that I’m blessed.
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I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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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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In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it’s helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
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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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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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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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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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It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.
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We all wanted to be like him.
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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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There 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.
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