A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
TONY FINAUThis 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 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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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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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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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’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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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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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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I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.
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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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