Tony spreads the family fame

TONY Finau marked his selection for the US Ryder Cup team with what could easily have been mistaken as a warm-up for Tonga’s crack at England in Sapporo this time next year.
The golfer, whose father left the South Sea Islands for Los Angeles as a boy in the mid- Seventies, posted a passable performance of a Tongan war dance on social media by way of celebrating his presence at the biennial golf classic in France later this month.
Finau is merely the latest member of his family to make it big in various arenas of American sport. One relative, Jabari Parker, plays basketbal...

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