Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
TONY FINAUEssentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.
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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.
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I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.
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It 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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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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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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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’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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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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We’re going to tournaments, and we’re driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.
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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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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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