Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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.
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Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I’d like to play in and win the most.
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If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
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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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I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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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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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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There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it’s time to play in competition, you don’t want to think too many thoughts.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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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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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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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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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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 generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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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’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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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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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 always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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I enjoy the challenge of being a father… I try to do my best to be there for my children.
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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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It’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.
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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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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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