Tony Finau Quotes

Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.

For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.

With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.

I've got a lot more control with my wedges.

I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.

You'll find that one-length irons are far more versatile around the greens. You can vary the trajectory more, your distance control will improve because you can choke down more if you want.

When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren't careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.

You may not even realize how much your off-the-rack clubs are affecting your game.

I typically opt for a fade when I'm hitting into greens. It's just an easier shot to control.

Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.

Would I have done anything different? I might have put a golf club in my hand instead of a cue. I love watching those guys play. Every situation is different, everything - every shot - has to be so precise.

I'd definitely use a 48-inch driver if I could control it.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I'm not.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

I love to play three-quarter iron shots. They take a lot of extra movement out of the swing, which increases my chance of hitting it solid with the face square to the target.

Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.

I look more like a professional golfer than I do an NFL football player.