I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
TONY FINAUWhen I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah.
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Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.
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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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Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.
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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 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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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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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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I have a little different perspective on this whole golf thing than maybe some other players.
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I had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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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 have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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If the rules aren’t going to protect the integrity of the game, then they’re wrong.
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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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