When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
TONY FINAUIn 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it’s helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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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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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My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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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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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’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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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I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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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 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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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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It’s a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it’s like… to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.
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