Driver, backup driver. If I break the shafts
, which I've done many times. 28 irons in
here, Rusty Beats here, four wedges. I
need to be specific with the yardages, nine iron
, great leather glove, very special putter here.
Golf. I'm Tony Finau and this is the backdrop
. This is my gamer driver, ping G 439
degree driver, 45 inches. This is my favorite
club because it goes the furthest, I mean stuck
yards. My driver is about 3, 10,
315 in there. The good thing is I can't
really lie because this machine will tell me how far
it goes a little bit further. 331. What
a lot of people don't know about me is I
was being recruited to play basketball at Weber State.
The same college Damian Lillard went to. We were
being recruited at the same time. We're the same
age. I am 64 on the golf course.
I look like a giant on the basketball court.
Not as much. I would be more a point
guard. I definitely think it's an advantage to be
tall. You just have to know how to use
your length. My wingspan 6 ft nine and imagine
an arc. The golf club works on a huge
arc and because of my long arms, I'm able
to create really a bigger arc than anybody else.
So that should equal further distance, which most of
the time it does. Next club. My backup
driver, this is a special head cover I got
for my wife. My wife is my personal stylist
. She does a good job along with Nike,
just putting together my outfits for the week. Anybody
that likes my style or what I'm wearing on the
golf course. You can thank my wife for me
. I always need a backup driver because I swing
the club so fast. If my face cracks on
the other one or if I break the shaft,
which I've done many times. I need to have
a backup in place 181 ball speed and 320 in
the air on to the next one next up.
We've got the three wood Callaway, three wood A
I smoke. As you can see, it's not
very clean, which just means that I use it
a lot. The driver is the only club in
the golf bag where you're trying to have a level
angle of attack or a little bit up because the
ball is teed up. The three wood is very
similar angle of attack as an iron. Meaning I
can go ahead and hit the ground with this three
wood. A lot of people like to sweep it
. I actually like to take a divot when I'm
hitting it off the ground. Didn't look like a
big David, but there's definitely a divot there.
The next, now I know I said earlier that
my favorite golf club in the bag was the driver
. But I lied. My trusty driving three iron
. I've been hitting this for 10 years, which
in golf club years is about 80 years old.
I've hit more fairways with this than any other club
in my bag. For that reason. It's just
my favorite club. Really good. Far and straight
. Yeah, kind of like that. Seven tour
wins. One on the Corn Ferry and six on
the PJ tour. And I've used this club for
all seven. So this is the only club I've
used for all my professional wins on the big stage
. We got the forearm. Longest holding one I've
ever made was with my forearm, 230 yard par
three little uphill, beautiful little cut shot in there
. Landed over the hill. I didn't know where
the ball went at the time. Walked up to
the green. Didn't see a ball on the green
. Looked in the hole and it was in the
hole solid, a good strike. Five iron pole
17 at Augusta National in 2018. It was my
sixth birdie in a row and it was a six
shot from right of the fairway. And I must
have curved this golf ball 50 yards, 60 yards
. It was like 100 and 75 yards and I
hit a huge slice. Five. I see if
we can recreate that here. Oh yeah, that's
a pretty big slice. But thank you, sir
. On the six iron now, the six iron
, I'm trying to think of some stories with the
six iron and I don't know that I really have
one. It's got to be in here for some
reason. Let's go find out why. Oh,
did you guys hear that sound? That's why that
clubs in there, this club next up, we
got the seven iron. Probably my favorite iron.
And the only reason being my favorite number is seven
. I graduated in 2007, 7 birdies in a
row is the most I've ever made. Seven is
my favorite number. And so seven iron is my
favorite iron. I should say graduated high school in
2007 if I speak. And you don't understand what
I'm saying because my highest level of education is high
school that'll do that will do. Ok. I
have 28 irons in here. This is the DS
T compressor. And as you can see the shaft
is bent. You can clearly see that the shaft
is bent, right? The reason why it's bent
is it helps me compress the golf ball. When
you're swinging a golf club, you want your hands
to be leading the shot and it helps having a
tool like this where I can truly lean the shaft
to make sure I'm making good contact. And like
this compressor said, compress the golf ball. All
right, we're on to the real eight iron.
When I'm doing my warm up every time for tournaments
. I hit all my wedges. I hit my
eight iron compressor. Then I move on to this
club after this club, I hit the four iron
, three wood driver. So this is a club
that I hit every single day on the driving range
. Big reggae fan. Obviously, Bob Marley,
UB 40 Lucky Dube grew up on a lot of
hip hop as well. R and B and things
like that. But I pretty much listen to anything
really while we're talking about music. I got my
trusty beats here. Beats did a beautiful job in
creating a really cool Masters beats for me. Got
my logo on there inspired someone from my foundation 1997
to 2024. The significance of that is I started
playing golf in the summer of 97 because a guy
named Tiger Woods won the Masters and I thought he
looked pretty cool. So I was like, why
don't I try this? You'll see me wearing these
on the golf course. And every time I practice
, I always have my beats on, the closer
you get to the hole, the better you have
to be. I'm within 100 yards of the green
pretty often. So I need to be specific with
the yardages. I got a pitching wedge. A
gap words, sand wedge when I was little,
I used to think it was a sandwich. I
loved food but it's not a sandwich. It's a
sand wedge. Lob wedge. I was in the
Corn Ferry tour finals in 2014. I get to
the 16th hole of the final round and I get
over my golf ball and I put my club behind
the ball and the ball just drops down in golf
. That's a penalty shot because your ball moved.
Nobody was around just me. I'm the only one
that saw it. It would have been really easy
for me to not call the penalty shot and just
gain that extra advantage as something that I would have
liked to have at the time going into the PGA
tour in a better position. But I called the
penalty shot on me because I just knew that was
the right thing. The lesson there is honesty always
serves you. Well, I end up having a
great rookie season despite that and I slept great at
night after that. This club, this is my
nine iron should go about 162 yards, 170.
I'm a little amped up right now. This is
my trusty Nike glove, great leather glove. I
got a very special putter here. It's a putter
that I help patent with the guys at ping.
It's a very unique looking putter, the reasoning behind
this was I used to love hitting putts off the
toe of the putter. If you could imagine,
I would like to hit putts off the toe of
the putter strokes like this. And I always thought
to myself, well, why can't I make a
putter that looks like that the putter has to conform
to certain dynamics. This is what we came out
with. It's actually a conforming club, meaning I
could use it in a PJ tour event. It's
really cool. I have the actual patent for it
with my name on it as well as the guys
at ping. But it's a special club to me
because it's something that I helped ping with something that
I'm very proud of. Maybe sometime down the line
, I'll be able to use it on in a
PGA tour event. Oh, I cannot break every
time I play. This is how I mark my
golf ball. Ive got initials on there. I'll
mark my balls with all my kids and my wife's
initials on them and just depending on how they perform
they stay in or they go out. I'm extremely
blessed to play the game of golf. I've been
very fortunate to have played it at the highest level
, compete against the best players in the world.
And it's truly been my dream my whole life to
do that. And now that I'm living it to
be able to share it with the people that I
love most is extremely special for me and that's everything
in my bag.