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 FINAUIt’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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in 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 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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There 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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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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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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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 think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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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I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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