It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
TONY FINAUI just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.
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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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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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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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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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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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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it’s time to play in competition, you don’t want to think too many thoughts.
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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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.
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I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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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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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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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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