We’re going to tournaments, and we’re driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.
TONY FINAUI 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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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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 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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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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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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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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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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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.
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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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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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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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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