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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.

Tony Finau

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.
TONY FINAU

City Grew Lake Neighbourhood One Park Poor Proud Rose Salt Section Taught
Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.
TONY FINAU

Balance Body Generate Keep Lower Need Power Quite Smooth Tempo Use Worry
I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
TONY FINAU

Attend Challenge Church Definitely Get Really
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

Achieve Background Ethnic Cool Goal Kid Mature Me Thing
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.
TONY FINAU

Always Card Com Final Myself Prove Special Stage Tough Web Year
I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
TONY FINAU

Color Favourite Goes Green Master Mom Pretty Sunday
I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
TONY FINAU

Always Foot Go Myself never Paly Participant Set Told Unless
Sports are big. You learn to fight.
TONY FINAU

Big Fight Learn Sport
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
Mini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
TONY FINAU

Glamorous Mine Professional Tour
Essentially, 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.
TONY FINAU

Career Essential Family Journey Parent Path Professional Right Start Turn
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
I 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.
TONY FINAU

Believe Huge Life Listen Part People Think Wise
Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.
TONY FINAU

Care Extra Family Gove Outside People Something Take Yourself
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.
TONY FINAU

Effort Happen Move Overnight Process Shot Slice Straighten Systematic Work
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
It’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.
TONY FINAU

Cool Country Do Especially Many Period Polynesian Pretty Sport Thing Us
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.
TONY FINAU

Basketball Cool Able Drunk Golf Long Nody Pretty Probably
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
My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.
TONY FINAU

Because Being Brother Distance Emd Far Ide Known Same Sudden
I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
TONY FINAU

Foundation Logo Low Mark Spinning Tony Use
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.
TONY FINAU

Become Benefit Christ God Help Jesus Kind Person Relationship Upbring
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.
TONY FINAU

Cool Country Extremely First Master People Person Proud Thing Tour
The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal.
TONY FINAU

Happen Ideal Life Order Suppose Think Transpitre
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.
TONY FINAU

Clubface Cutm Across Every Go Heart Open Out Slice Swing Usually
There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it’s time to play in competition, you don’t want to think too many thoughts.
TONY FINAU

Competition Counties Many Swing Thing Think Thought Time Wait
The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
TONY FINAU

Club Crazy Driver Ever Hit Last Learn Thing

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