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...Dogs. By 1965, although few U.S. fans had heard of him, Trevino was already making an impression on his peers. He won the Texas State Open and finished second in the Mexican Open, meanwhile working as a teaching pro at El Paso's Horizon Hills Country Club. His basic salary was indeed only $30 a week, but with his coaching fees, he says, "I was making more money than the guy who owned the club." He picked up another $600 in the 1966 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, playing with an unmatched bag of clubs...
Will success spoil Lee Trevino? Not likely. Last week, after putting the touch on his wife Claudia ("Honey, let me have a couple of hundred, will you?"), Lee headed for his favorite relaxing spot: the greyhound-racing track in Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso. "I never win anything," he confided. "I'm the worst picker of dogs in the world. I couldn't win a race if there was only one dog in it; he'd probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track...
...Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 29, have broken and rebroken the world indoor and outdoor records eleven times, won four Olympic medals and dominated every meet they entered. So imagine the impertinence when a slender, 21-year-old sophomore from the University of Texas at El Paso swiped all the action from his elders...
...entered the U.S. Marines as a fairway hacker and emerged as a polished player-after a tour of duty on Okinawa, where "we had 'greens' covered with sand an inch or two deep." Trevino was a teaching pro in El Paso until last year, when he entered the U.S. Open at his wife's insistence, wound up fifth and won $6,000. Committed now to the tour ("You don't have to put up with the little old ladies here"), Lee skips rope and does situps, is often the first pro on the practice...
Besides Ryun and Hardin, the field included Kerry Pearce of Texas-El Paso, the world record holder; Colby's Sebside Mamo, the IC4A champion, and Big Ten champion Larry Wieczorek of Iowa...