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Tony Finau

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 FINAU

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Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.
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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 have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.
TONY FINAU

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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.
TONY FINAU

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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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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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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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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.
TONY FINAU

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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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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.
TONY FINAU

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As a rookie, I need to play a lot. I need to know what courses I like and adjust to the atmosphere and the lifestyle of playing at the highest level.
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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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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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At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.
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