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Lee Trevino: Golf
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Lee Trevino golfs like a man who's late for his own wedding. It's all fury and joy. He's the first one to his ball. The first one to your ball. He's the first one with advice, the first one standing right in front of you as you swing, ready with a backup one-liner in case you didn't laugh at his first.
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Completely self-taught, Lee Trevino's unorthodox swing has made golf pros shudder throughout his career. With a wide stance and a closed club face, he drives through the ball with a flat baseball-type swing. By the standards of traditional golf, he does everything wrong, which somehow turns out right. Trevino, who has long shunned golf instructors, once told the San Antonio Express-News, "I'll hire [an instructor] when I find one who can beat me." Over his career, which has spanned more than three decades, Trevino has found little need for any advice. Known as the Merry Mex for his nonstop chatting around the course, Trevino is an exceptional golfer as well as a favorite of galleries wherever he plays.
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Lee Trevino was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 1, 1939, and raised along with two sisters by his mother and grandfather in a one-room house in North Dallas without plumbing or electricity. As a child, Trevino worked in the fields alongside his family and as a result attended school only intermittently. At age eight, he took a job on the public golf course near his home, where he developed the ball-striking skills that would one day awe his fellow professionals. Trevino enlisted in the Marines at 17, and played on the U.S. Marines golf team. After his discharge in 1960 he returned to making a living at a golf course, clerking and hustling other golfers for money.
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Lee Buck Trevino was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 1, 1939, to parents Joseph and Juanita Trevino. He had two sisters and his father left the family at an early age. They lived in four rooms with no running water and no electricity. But with Juanita's pay from her work as a domestic and the help of her father-in-law, Joe Trevino, a grave-digger, the family got by. The house stood in a field and backed up to the fairway of a local Dallas golf course, the Glen Lakes Country Club, and young Lee was fascinated with the world of rolling, finely manicured lawns, spotless putting greens and dapperly clad golfers he saw walking by each day.
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Elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981, Trevino is truly a memorable character in golf lore. His ability to distill truth into a Trevino-ism is well known. His ball-striking exceptional, his ability to talk in the middle of a swing a little odd, and his PGA and Champions Tour records have cemented him as one of the very best to have stalked the fairways.
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The other threesomes in the best-ball-of-threesome competition are Billy Casper, Lee Trevino, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Tony Jacklin, Gene Littler and Charles Coody. All nine men will play in a pro-amateur at 3M’s Tartan Park golf course on Friday, August 3.
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