LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Lee Trevino: Champions Tour
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Lee Trevino told the Boston Globe over the weekend that he has only two more tournaments to play, and then he's through with competitive golf. "As retirement announcements go," the Globe reported, "it was as informal as it gets."
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Trevino ... won more than 20 international and unofficial professional tournaments. In his fifties he was one of the key charismatic stars who helped to make the Senior PGA Tour, now the Champions Tour, a commercial success. He picked up the same tally of 29 wins on this tour as he had on the regular tour, including four senior majors. He topped the senior money list in 1990 and 1992.
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Trevino never knew his father and was raised by his mother and grandfather, a gravedigger. He started caddying at eight years old and practiced golf religiously growing up. He joined the Marines at age 17 and served four years before joining the PGA Tour.
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In 1990 52-year-old Trevino joined the Senior PGA tour and surprised no one when he continued the successful run of his PGA days. During his first year he earned more prize money than the money leader of the regular tour and was both Senior Rookie of the Year and Senior Player of the Year.
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With the $6,000 he took in, and a showing that enabled him to get into subsequent Tour events that year, Trevino won another $20,000. He was set, financially and game-wise, to begin his invasion of major-league professional golf. He was indeed an overnight sensation.
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There are many reasons Trevino has not returned to Pebble since 1987. He began doing television work for NBC in the late 1980s, as he reached his late 40s and his PGA Tour career wound down.
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