As a rookie, I need to play a lot. I need to know what courses I like and adjust to the atmosphere and the lifestyle of playing at the highest level.
TONY FINAUI 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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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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 always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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I’ve had opportunities to step foot on the grounds and play Augusta and watch the Masters. But I always, since I was a kid,
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It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for 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 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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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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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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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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