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[PGA TOUR]

DETERMINED FINAU PERSEVERES

TO MEANINGFUL 3M OPEN VICTORY

토니 피나우의 의미 있는 3M Open 우승

LAINE, Minn. – After securing his third PGA TOUR where Piercy earned $2 million as champion. Finau
Btitle Sunday at the 3M Open, Tony Finau was greeted was just 17 at the time, having turned pro on the day he
by fellow TOUR pro Scott Piercy. graduated from high school.
Piercy held a four-stroke lead into the final round at Finau spent upwards of seven years on mini-tours
TPC Twin Cities, five clear of Finau, and he maintained before earning Korn Ferry Tour status in 2014, earning
a healthy margin into the back nine, overcoming a his TOUR card that season and keeping it ever since. He
troublesome blister suffered on his right heel earlier in has developed a reputation as a premier ball-striker and
the week that required going shoeless at times. Piercy gritty competitor, despite critics who questioned whether
was undone by a back-nine 41 Sunday, undone by a triple he had the instincts to become a prolific TOUR winner
bogey at the par-4 14th hole, and Finau took the reins with after a string of near misses, recording eight runner-up
three consecutive birdies on holes 14-16, highlighted by a finishes between his first two victories at the 2016 Puerto
32-footer at the par-4 15th. Rico Open and 2021 THE NORTHERN TRUST.
The two go back to 2007 when both competed in the The emotional scene with Piercy was a microcosm of
Ultimate Game in Las Vegas, a high-stakes competition how Finau is viewed by his TOUR peers, respected for his

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