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...enter the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, although his achievements have, in the past, been somewhat less than illustrious there. Agnew has played twice, maiming four people with tee shots. Pro golfer Doug Sanders, bloodied in 1970 by an Agnew drive, bemoaned "I was standing in the fairway--I thought I'd be safe there." The American Medical Association could not be reached for comment on Agnew's decision...
...swinging to the right, he has a flat chopping stroke that sends his drives off the tee like sharp singles to center field. Dead center field, that is. No power hitter, he makes up in accuracy what he lacks in distance. "The only time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says...
Shambling along a fairway, the short fat man often looks more like one of the galleryites?which explains in part why he has become the duffers' delight. "I've got a lot of people rooting for me," says Trevino, "because there's more poor people than rich people. You look at my galleries. You'll see tattoos. Plain dresses. I represent the guy who goes to the driving range, the municipal player, the truck driver, the union man, the guy who grinds it out. To them, I am someone who worked hard, kept at it and made it. Sure...
...golf balls, though, were for real. The Trevino house stood in a hayfield next to the seventh fairway of the Glen Lakes Country Club. In between was a fence, and little Lee was soon turning a tidy profit on that happy coincidence ?collecting balls that sailed over the fence and selling them back to club members. Expanding his business, he welded two rake handles together, fashioned a chicken-wire scoop on one end, and went fishing for more strays in the water hazards. "I cleared maybe $10 a day," he recalls. When he was six, he found a discarded...
...tricky Agawam Hunt Club in Providence-one of Brown's home courses-proved to be too much of an advantage for the Bruin squad. "The course had a lot of tricky dog legs," said Sherman. "And one hole had a tree right in the middle of the fairway...