For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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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I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.
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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 always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.
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At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.
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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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My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.
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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 never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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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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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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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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’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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