Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
TONY FINAUBut I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.
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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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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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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’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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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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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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The Ping 51-degree makes for a nice transition from the irons. On my 60, it says 8 degrees of bounce, but I grind it to about 5 or 6 degrees. I tried a head with less bounce, but it just didn’t look right.
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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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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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