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 FINAUEverything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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.
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There are a lot of variables to playing mini-tour golf because of the finances. If you don’t play well, you’re often losing a lot of your own money.
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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 always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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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 all wanted to be like him.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
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It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.
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I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
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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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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 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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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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