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.
TONY FINAUI have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.
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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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Mini-tour life isn’t a glamorous, professional golf life. If you’re not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.
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My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.
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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 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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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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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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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 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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We didn’t have cable TV. We just couldn’t afford it. But you don’t need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.
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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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I enjoy the challenge of being a father… I try to do my best to be there for my children.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That’s one thing that I had to keep telling myself.
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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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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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We all wanted to be like him.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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