The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
TONY FINAUEverything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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I’ve taken two weeks off before I’ve played a major, and I’ve played two straight weeks before a major as well.
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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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Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it’s motivated me more to give that extra something.
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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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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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When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.
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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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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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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.
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I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.
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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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I know a lot of kids following in my footsteps, not only from my heritage, but there’s younger generations trying to follow in my footsteps.
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I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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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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