I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
TONY FINAU
I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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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 felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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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.
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There’s a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don’t have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.
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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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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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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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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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’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.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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