Tony Finau received a bit of a surprise during Saturday’s rain delay at The Masters.
The 31-year-old was waiting out the 78-minute delay in the caddie house when Augusta club member Jimmy Dunne, one of the few permitted to have a cell phone on site, told Finau somebody wanted to talk to him on FaceTime.
It was seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
“That was a pleasant surprise,” Finau told reporters afterward.
Finau is friends with Brady’s longtime personal trainer, Alex Guerrero, and was able to meet the Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback through him back when Brady was with the New England Patriots.
But Finau said this was just the second time the two have ever spoken. So, what did Brady want to tell Finau?
“He was giving me some crap about the weather and why we stopped,” Finau said. “He was obviously watching, and that was cool that he was following.”
Finau, who finished the day shooting 1-over-par 73 and moved into ninth place on the leaderboard, added that Brady told him “great playing” and that he was surprised they stopped during the rain.
“I said, ‘Maybe we’re not as tough as you [football] guys,” Finau said. ”And he said, ‘No, that’s not the case.’ We had a good laugh about it.”
Brady, of course, had to wait out a rain delay of his own when he took golf’s center stage last spring as part of “The Match: Champions for Charity” during the middle of the pandemic.
The Bucs QB teamed up with Phil Mickelson and competed against Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods in the made-for-TV event. Brady mostly struggled, but had perhaps the highlight of the day when he holed-out from 150 yards on a par-5, before infamously splitting his pants.
Finau is faring much better at The Masters, entering Sunday at three-under-par for the entire weekend and eight strokes behind Hideki Matsuyama atop the leaderboard.
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