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.
TONY FINAUThere’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.
More Tony Finau Quotes
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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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Everything just kind of fell in my lap at a young age. Things were thrown at me very fast.
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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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It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.
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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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The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver.
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Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.
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I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.
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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 have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you’d think I was an NBA player.
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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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If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
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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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We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.
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I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent.
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