Augusta, Ga. • Kelepi Finau knew nothing about golf when his sons Tony and Gipper started playing the game as children. One of his first discoveries was that weekend golfers like to play in the mornings, leaving Rose Park and other Salt Lake City municipal courses practically vacant on Saturday afternoons.
And then he learned that the leaders in professional golf tournaments tee off in weekend rounds in the late afternoon, making that time slot a symbolic training ground for his young golfers as they grew in the game.
That background is why Tony Finau loved getting the opportunity to step onto Augusta National Golf Club’s No.