‘I have a different story to most guys out here’: Tony Finau’s remarkable road to Augusta

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Tony Finau’s voice cracks a little, tracing the drive from his frostbitten garage to Milwaukee and the beaten-up hotel, where he wore his father’s hand-me-downs and watched his mother count pennies at the table. “That day, I told my mum we wouldn’t have to do this much longer,” Finau tells The Independent. Finau is now one of golf’s most recognisable stars, built like an NBA athlete, with a gunslinging drive that will make the branches wail at Augusta in the absence of spectators.

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