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.
TONY FINAUWhen 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 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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How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf.
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I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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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I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.
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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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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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We didn’t have cable TV. We just couldn’t afford it. But you don’t need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.
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It was tough, and sometimes you had to find some sponsors for a percentage of your winnings.
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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 think there’s too many rules in golf. And I mean that’s easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.
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I always told myself I am never going to set foot there unless I am playing and a participant.
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,
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For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.
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Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.
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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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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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The No. 1 institution in the world is family. It’s so powerful.
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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.
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I always felt I’ve been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.
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Sports are big. You learn to fight.
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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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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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