Tony Finau

Tony Finau
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born September 14, 1989
Salt Lake City, Utah
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Nationality  United States
Career
Turned professional 2007
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Former tour(s) PGA Tour Canada
Web.com Tour
Professional wins 1
Number of wins by tour
Web.com Tour 1

Tony Finau (born September 14, 1989) is an American professional golfer.

Finau was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Although he had college scholarship offers in basketball, he turned professional at the age of 17 and began playing on mini-tours including the Gateway Tour, NGA Hooters Tour, and National Pro Tour.[1] He played on the PGA Tour Canada in 2013, making seven cuts in eight starts.[1] He finished T-3 at the 2013 Web.com Tour qualifying school to earn his Web.com Tour card for 2014.[1] He won his first event in August 2014 at the Stonebrae Classic.[2] He finished 12th in the Web.com Tour Finals to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.

Finau and his brother Gipper competed on the Golf Channel's The Big Break in 2009. Finau finished second on Big Break Disney Golf. He is the cousin of basketball player Jabari Parker.[1]

Finau is of Tongan and American Samoan descent, the first person of such ancestry to play on the PGA Tour.[3]

Professional wins (1)

Web.com Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 Aug 3, 2014 Stonebrae Classic 67-62-63-66=267 −22 3 strokes United States Daniel Berger, Argentina Fabián Gómez, United States Zack Sucher

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Tony Finau profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Tony Finau shoots 66 en route to win". ESPN. Associated Press. August 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Evans, Farrell (October 7, 2014). "Finau's atypical path to PGA Tour". ESPN.

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