Tony Finau Quotes

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

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

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.

I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.

I don't know if I spent any time on a putting green when I was a kid. I was too busy hitting driver.

There are a plenty of shots that I have been amazed by, but a lot of these shots are played because you have worn an iron mask. Take away the protection, and let me see if they play them. Don't forget that the past players did not have any protection.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

Even if you've never picked up a club, or if you've been playing for a long time, there's always something new to learn from playing golf. That's the beauty of the game. You never stop learning.

When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.

Golf is not easy.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Actually, I'm a very good golfer.