Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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 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 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 have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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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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When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.
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I’ve had opportunities to step foot on the grounds and play Augusta and watch the Masters. But I always, since I was a kid,
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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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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.
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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.
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But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.
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I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.
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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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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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So it’s really cool just to be the start of something pretty special for our culture.
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