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 FINAUOne of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That’s one thing that I had to keep telling myself.
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I’m always playing on Sunday, and that’s tough because I really never get to take the sacrament – maybe once every three or four months when I’m home and have a week off.
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The things that transpired in my life, they didn’t happen in the order that they’re supposed to, or are ideal.
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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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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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I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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 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.
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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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 don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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I enjoy the challenge of being a father… I try to do my best to be there for my children.
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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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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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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 am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
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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 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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I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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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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I didn’t have really much of a social life in high school, and I’m not really a partyer, so college wasn’t super appealing to me at the time.
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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.
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When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.
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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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