Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I’d like to play in and win the most.
TONY FINAUWhen I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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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 don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.
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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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When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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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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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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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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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.
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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.
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We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
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A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.
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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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I’m not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.
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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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I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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