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.
TONY FINAUIt 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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That’s one thing that I had to keep telling myself.
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I’m always playing on Sunday, and that’s tough because I really never get to take the sacrament – maybe once every three or four months when I’m home and have a week off.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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I feel like listening is a huge part of life – not only listening to people, but listening to people that you believe in, people who you think are wise.
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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 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 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 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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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.
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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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