How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
TONY FINAUThere are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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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I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
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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 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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
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So I definitely take time to realize where I’m at in my life. And I know that I’m blessed.
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Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.
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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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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In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it’s helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
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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’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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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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