Tony Finau
| Tony Finau | |
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Finau at 2015 Deutsche Bank | |
| 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 | 2 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 1 |
| Web.com Tour | 1 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| U.S. Open | T14: 2015 |
| The Open Championship | T18: 2016 |
| PGA Championship | T10: 2015 |
Tony Finau (born September 14, 1989) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Finau was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Finau won the Utah State Amateur Championship in 2006, defeating future PGA Tour player Daniel Summerhays in the 36-hole championship match. 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 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 title in August 2014 at the Stonebrae Classic.[2] He finished 8th in the regular season, and 12th in the Web.com Tour Finals to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.
Finau is of Tongan and American Samoan descent, the first person of such ancestry to play on the PGA Tour.[3]
In March 2016, Finau won his maiden title on the PGA Tour at the Puerto Rico Open. He won in a sudden death playoff over Steve Marino with a birdie on the third extra hole. He had earlier missed a putt for the victory outright on the 72nd green. The result moved Finau into the top 25 in the FedEx Cup standings.
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] Gipper was never able to get past the second stage of PGA Tour Q School.
Finau opted not to defend his Puerto Rico title in 2017, instead taking his chances to get into the field at the 2017 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, but was two players short of entering the field, which takes the top 64 available players from the Official World Golf Ranking.
Professional wins (2)
PGA Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar 27, 2016 | Puerto Rico Open | 69-70-67-70=276 | −12 | Playoff | Steve Marino |
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2016 | Puerto Rico Open | Steve Marino |
Won with birdie on third extra hole |
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 | Daniel Berger,  Fabián Gómez, Zack Sucher |
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| U.S. Open | T14 | CUT | DNP |
| The Open Championship | DNP | T18 | T27 |
| PGA Championship | T10 | CUT |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10
U.S. national team appearances
Amateur
- Junior Ryder Cup: 2004, 2006
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Tony Finau profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Tony Finau shoots 66 en route to win". ESPN. Associated Press. August 3, 2014.
- ↑ Evans, Farrell (October 7, 2014). "Finau's atypical path to PGA Tour". ESPN.
External links
- Tony Finau at the PGA Tour official site
- Tony Finau at the Official World Golf Ranking official site