PGA Tour 2021 - American Express Round Two
Tony Finau Shoots 6-under 66 in the video above.
Finau's background, "one of modern-day golf’s great rags to riches story" is told on GolfWeek.
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It was his younger brother, Gipper, then 5, who became enthralled by seeing Tiger Woods win the 1997 Masters on TV. That motivated their mother, Ravena, to ask her husband to teach the boys the game. This despite the fact that his father, Kelepi Finau, never had swung a golf club.
“I thought golf was a game for old rich guys,” Kelepi Finau has said.
Lessons and buckets of balls were beyond the family’s means, so Kelepi, who worked in cargo at Delta Air Lines, checked out instructional books and videotapes at the library.
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The brothers initially shared a discarded 6‑iron and blasted balls off carpet into a mattress in the family garage in Utah. It wasn’t long before they ripped through a blanket that hung as a target and replaced it with a net. They chipped and stroked putts at a nearby par‑3 course for free, which is why the brothers learned to play from the green back to the tee.
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Eventually, Finau became good enough that he played on the 2004 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team. He earned scholarship offers from UNLV and BYU, but instead turned pro at age 17 in 2007
Full story at GolfWeek.
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