Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
TONY FINAUWhen I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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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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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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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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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.
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I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage.
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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.
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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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In 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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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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Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I’d like to play in and win the most.
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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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I’ve never seen it in person and wouldn’t go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn’t go until I played my way there.
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I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
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