Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don’t have to worry about losing your balance.
TONY FINAUIt was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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 generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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 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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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.
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I’ve never seen it in person and wouldn’t go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn’t go until I played my way there.
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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 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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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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It’s a cool thing to see Polynesians – there’s not too many of us, period – but especially doing well in American sports. It’s pretty cool.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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