Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I’d like to play in and win the most.
TONY FINAUAs 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 knew when I got on tour that if I had the opportunity to give back to my community, which is Rose Park, I would.
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Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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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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It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.
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I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have turned pro at 17.
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There’s a lot of great athletes all over the world, and some of them don’t have the access or opportunity to play the game of golf.
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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.
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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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My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden.
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Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.
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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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.
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My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.
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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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