LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Lee Trevino: Golf
built 656 days ago
Although he was often physically beaten by his grandfather, Trevino was a streetwise kid with an infectious smile and a ready wit who did not resent his family's poverty. Instead, he developed the resourcefulness, drive, and creativity that would characterize his career as a golfer. Using a discarded club cut down to a six-year-old's size, he began developing a golf swing by mimicking what he saw while watching other golfers at a distance. At night he would sneak over the fence and play on the empty course. At age 14 he went to work at Hardy's Driving Range, where he was able to practice his swing with real golf equipment.
Source:
Trevino was introduced to the game of golf when his uncle gave him a few old golf balls and a rusty golf club. From this point on, Lee could not get enough. He spent most of his free time sneaking into nearby country clubs to practice his newly found activity. At eight years old he began caddying at Tenison Park, a local golf course. However, a few years later, caddying became a full time job because he needed to earn enough money to survive. Thus, before his eighth grade year, Trevino had to leave school in order to go to work.
Source:
Raised near a country club in Dallas, Texas, Trevino spent his childhood on and around the club's golf course. He dropped out of school at age 13 and worked on the course's grounds, practicing his game after work. After serving in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1961, Trevino returned to Dallas and began to earn his living playing golf. He often defeated opponents using only one club for the entire course or using a drink bottle wrapped in tape as a club at a pitch-and-putt course.
Source:
On his seventeenth birthday Trevino enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. The previous few years had been a time of confusion and change for him. The Marines provided the perfect, stable environment for a directionless young man. Trevino still looks back fondly at the comradeship and fun of those years spent in the company of his peers. Of course he was by no means a model soldier - he had his fair share of disciplinary problems. However, by the fourth year of his service he had matured sufficiently to make the rank of Lance-corporal and, through an administrative error, found himself in the Special Services Unit issuing athletic equipment and driving the football team bus. More importantly, he spent the last eighteen months of his service playing golf with the officers in the afternoons.
Source:
In the age group of 30-34, Nicklaus, Watson and Palmer all won five Majors, with Faldo and Trevino each winning four apiece, leading you to assume that is the five-year period when most top golfers are in their prime. Looking at the numbers appears to bear that out. Here are the totals for the above winners with the exception of Woods, since he is just 30 and ... only fits into the first two categories:
Source:
Trevino married three times and fathered six children. Son Richard Lee, from his first marriage, became a professional golfer. Lesley Ann, Tony Lee, and Troy Liana were from his second marriage to Claudia Lee Fenley, which ended in divorce in early 1983. Trevino wed Claudia Bove, whom he met at the Greater Hartford Open, in December 1983; the couple had two children, Olivia and Daniel.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Golf