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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.

Tony Finau

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.
TONY FINAU

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Mini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
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Glamorous Mine Professional Tour
I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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Different Perspective Egolf Litle Maybe Other Player Some Thing Whol
I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
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Foundation Logo Low Mark Spinning Tony Use
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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Clubface Cutm Across Every Go Heart Open Out Slice Swing Usually
I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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Been Inspire Just Kid Lot Me Proud Really See
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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At Change Cross Hand Help Inconsistency Left Put Reason Switch Time
Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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Big Fight Learn Sport
I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.
TONY FINAU

All Count Golf Half Inside Play Setup Volleyball Wife
I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
TONY FINAU

Advantage Circumstances Different Most Player Think
My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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Eighth Inch Iron Longer Standard Three
I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.
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Become Benefit Christ God Help Jesus Kind Person Relationship Upbring
I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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Always Foot Go Myself never Paly Participant Set Told Unless
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 FINAU

Kid Made Myself Play Promise Ticket Until Way
A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
TONY FINAU

A Lot Attention Colege Full Get Got Ready Sidetrack Time
We’re going to tournaments, and we’re driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.
TONY FINAU

Drive Forty Go Hite Par Ten Tournament Year
The Ping 51-degree makes for a nice transition from the irons. On my 60, it says 8 degrees of bounce, but I grind it to about 5 or 6 degrees. I tried a head with less bounce, but it just didn’t look right.
TONY FINAU

Bounce Degree Eighty Iron Make Ping Right Sixty Transition Try
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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Absolute Dad General Genius Golf Knowledge Left Polynesian Sport Thing Whole
It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.
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Back Fortunate Give Know Less Like One Position Pretty Privilege Seriously Take
I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.
TONY FINAU

Before Major Paly Straight Take Week Well
Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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Community Park Proud Rose
We all wanted to be like him.
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All Him Like Want We
Golf is an extremely expensive sport, and growing up, I didn’t come from a lot, but my parents sacrificed a lot for me to compete, and my goals were their goals.
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Come Complete Expensive Extremely Goal Grow Lot Parent Sacrifice Sport
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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Back Community Give Got Knew Opportunity People Person Tour
I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
TONY FINAU

Ball Coin Country Dollar Generally Mark One Quater Sometimes Use
I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
TONY FINAU

Always Been Felt High Pain Pretty Tolerance Tough
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.
TONY FINAU

Book Different Game Many Mean Part Player Put Rule Say So Too

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