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Lee Trevino: Champions Tour
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Lee Trevino is one of the legends of the game. Trevino was chosen by his peers as the Senior Tour’s Player of the Year in 1994, the third time he has received this honor. In 1990, Trevino became the first Senior to win over $1 million in a single season.
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Continuing to perform well into the mid-1990s, Trevino became PGA Seniors champion in 1994, but a neck injury forced him to start relaxing a bit. Playing a minimum of 20 tournaments a year, he was in the top ten only three times in 2000, and in 2003 was beaten by an amateur in a People vs. the Pros match in Las Vegas. In 2004 on the Champions Tour, Trevino marked his 16th season, 38 seasons total counting back from 1967 when he first joined the PGA Tour. With age taking its toll, he still worked on his swing, but as he told Bill Fields in Golf World, "Usually I go play now and I can tell you how many birds I saw, not how many greens I missed. But it's still a lot of fun."
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Lee Trevino won six major championships and at least one tournament a year for 14 straight years. In 1971, he was honored as the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year, The Sporting News Man of the Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year. He’s slowed down some at 65 years of age, but he’s still full of knowledge about the game.
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Lee Trevino continued to win championships in 1974 when he captured the PGA Championship but his luck quickly changed when he was struck by lightning in 1975. Although he suffered back and spinal cord injuries, he was still one of the top golf players and won his final championship in 1984. He became apart of the Senior PGA Tour and had 29 wins including four senior majors.
In 1989, the 49-year-old Trevino joined the PGA Senior Tour, where he immediately began racking up victories. In 1994, he scored a career-high winnings total of $1,202,369, with six titles and a third Player of the Year award. Though he considered retirement in 1999, Trevino continues on the tour, having amassed an impressive 29 titles. Despite, or perhaps because of, his unorthodox baseball-like swing, he is considered one of the best and most creative ball strikers to ever play the game.
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On the Senior Tour in 1995, Lee ended a one year winless streak by winning the Northville Long Island Classic. Later that year, he went six under par at The Transamerica. He ended with three consecutive birdies. In 1996, He won The Legends of Golf to claim a fourth victory in this event in six years. Trevino is currently in 18th place in the Money List.
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