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...Trevino rewarded his fans with a scrambling finish reminiscent of the Palmer of old. Six strokes off the pace after the first round, Lee pitched in a 105-yd. sand wedge for an eagle and holed a 35-ft. birdie putt on the final day of play to tie 47-year-old Art Wall for first place. Then, on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff, he coolly knocked in a snaking 18-ft. birdie to win the $30,000 first prize...
Golf has always had its share of distinctive, larger-than-life personalities: Terrible Tommy Bolt, the late Champagne Tony Lema, Daiquiri Doug Sanders. None of them, though, ever had Trevino's mix of fun and finesse?or his earthy, egalitarian appeal. A country-club Cantinflas, he will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love...
...game that demands the concentration of a watchmaker, Trevino confesses that "the only time I stop yakking is when I'm asleep." A methodical player like Nicklaus will go an entire round without uttering a word. Lee the Lip chatters before, after and sometimes even during a shot. "You know," he will say as he tees up, "I've got to be the only Mexican"?thwack goes his drive down the fairway?"who's never been in a detention home. I just never got caught." On another hole, he will announce: "Five years ago, I was teeing...
...Trevino's high jinks tend to obscure the excellence of his somewhat unorthodox style. Pointing his feet to the left and 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...
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...