Tony Finau Quotes

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

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.

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

Watch out for guys like Scott Piercy and Danny Willett. They both play really good on fast, fast greens.

Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you're not one of those things you don't really fit in the game.

Anything that helps shoot lower scores or makes golf more fun and grows the game, that's what I'm all about.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

I know bugger all about golf.

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

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.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

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.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.