Can Tony Finau win back-to-back PGA Tour events?

Fan favorite Tony Finau aims to capitalize on last week’s Mexico Championship victory by taking home The Wells Fargo Championship this weekend. The tournament returns to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte after a one-year absence. It is one of the PGA Tour’s four events with an elevated $20 million purse, which means the best players in the world will be participating. 

Finau’s popularity was aided by the hit Netlix series “Full Swing,” in which fans saw the family man side of the golfer. True to form, just hours after winning in Mexico on Sunday, he could be seen caddying for his two young sons at a Par Three course.

Can he win at Quail Hollow this weekend?  He should have a great chance, as he will be playing the best golf of his career when he gets started in earnest on Thursday. The 33-year-old has won four of his last 18 starts and is currently ranked as the No. 11 player in the world. 

Finau is coming off his sixth career PGA Tour win, which he earned on Sunday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. During the event, he fended off recent Masters winner and world No. 1 player Jon Rahm by three strokes. Beating his good friend Rahm figures to boost his confidence in Charlotte, with Finau saying, “Any time you can battle with a guy like John Rahm who’s in the form that he was and come out on top, it makes me feel good."

Finau’s putting has served as a huge boost for his recent game. After not putting well in previous years, he would make constant changes to his form, grips and putter heads. This season Finau decided to get back to basics and keep everything the same. 

He said recently, “I decided that I was going to commit to putting conventionally for a full season, no matter how I was putting, just figure it out.” 

That decision seems to have paid immediate dividends, as Finau currently ranks 25th on the PGA Tour in putting strokes gained. Last season he was 85th. 

If his putting game travels with him to Quail Hollow, he could be the PGA Tour’s first back-to-back winner of the season -- and would take home the $9.3 million prize money. Maybe then he can pay a friend to caddy for his kids.