Tony Finau
Name:
Milton Pouha "Tony" FinauCountry:
USABorn:
Sept 14, 1989 in Salt Lake City, Utah.Original/Home Club:
Occupation:
Professional golferTurned Pro:
2007Website:
https://www.tonyfinaufoundation.orgRyder Cup player (2018, '21). Presidents Cup player (2019). PGA Tour winner.
Six-foot four-inch (1.93 m) Finau could have played top-flight college basketball, but choose instead to sign-up to golf's professional ranks at the age of 17. He honed his skills on various mini-tours before moving onto the Web.com tour in 2015, and a year later the full PGA Tour.
His first PGA Tour win came after a playoff at the Puerto Rico Open in 2016. An excellent run of form in the 2018 majors and in the FedEx Cup playoff events saw Finau rewarded with a Captain's Pick for the USA Ryder Cup team.
America
Northern Trust
Played as The Northern Trust (Aug 19-22; first of three FedExCup playoff events). Tony Finau (USA) beat Cameron Smith (Aus) with a par at the first playoff hole (par-4 18th). Finau recorded his second PGA Tour win, coming 5 years and 142 tournaments after the first. Monday finish required (without spectators) following significant storm delays on the Sunday. [Liberty National GC, Jersey City, NJ].
Played as the Puerto Rico Open (March 24-27). 26-year-old Tony Finau (USA) beat Steve Marino (USA) with a birdie at the third playoff hole (par-5 18th), to record his first PGA Tour win. [Championship course, Grand Reserve GC, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico; at the time known as Coco Beach G&CC].
Tournaments:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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