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HOW GOOD WAS LEE TREVINO? So good that when PGA legends Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player were asked to describe him, both men found themselves on microphones having no choice but to give him real respect. The thumbnail image you clicked might have shown them both sitting there, trying to explain what made the guy special. Well, this is that story.
In the late 1960s, professional golf was a carefully designed world. It was polished, predictable, exclusive. Arnold Palmer had brought the game to regular people, Jack Nicklaus represented pure perfection, and Gary Player was the international champion. The PGA Tour operated like a country club, with its own rules, its own style, its own way of doing things. For decades, this order held firm. Then Lee Trevino showed up.
Trevino was different from day one. He was born into poverty in Texas, raised in a shack without plumbing, and spent his early years playing golf on municipal courses, hustling money in gambling matches. While the elite pros learned from textbooks and video analysis, Trevino learned because he needed to eat. He played using a taped-up Dr. Pepper bottle as a club when he was young. When he joined the Marines at seventeen, that military discipline finally channeled his raw talent into something focused.
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Lee has lasted longer than just about everyone who plays golf. Even at 86, he was playing against guys 30 years younger than him in the Fathers/Sons Tournament. When he reached the Senior Tour he won four more majors, giving him 10 in all. The man had guts. He was a
Marine, and a guy from the school of hard knocks. He wasn't afraid of Nicklaus or Player or Watson because he had faced much difficult opponents in his life. He ius truly one of the great sports stories of all-time!
Great player ❤
One of the purest ball striker’s of all time.He could place the golf ball exactly where he wanted the next shot from.
people need to learn the difference between a shut clubface and a closed clubface ….
Shut is a square to the target face angled down to create less loft , closed is the face not square turned inward to the left for a right handed golfer .
One young buck approached a dog leg right around 290 to the green. Lee said as a young man he used to drive the green. Young buck says "wow, over those trees?. Yup says Lee. Young buck tries, fails. Looks at Lee and Lee says quickly, "mind you, in my day, those pines were only six feet high".
Mr. Trevino is a legend here in Canada, three time winner of the Canadian Open 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Jack Nicklaus even said that he could win any tournament he wanted to win
Best pure ball striker ever…period.
The Merry Mex. 🙂 Great, great golfer..and a funny guy.
Watson went to Kansas Uni NOT Stanford
Why don’t they get the facts right….disappointing
I followed him once in Florida at a Tournament I'd forgotten. His playing Partner was Billy Casper and play that day was slow overall. When waiting to teevoff on every hole, Trevino talked non stop to the Gallery, Casper while Casper would sit on the bench, head in hand as he wasn't playing well and he couldn't handle listening to Trevino. I also followed Palmer he was also great with the Galleries. I met Jack Nicklaus at a Charity Tournament in Myrtle Beach for Jack Newton who was seriously injured in an accident in Australia. I was introduced to him at the party prior to the Tournament by a Friend of mine that worked for Nicklaus when he built Muirfield in Ohio. Mr Nicklaus was a down to earth and easy to talk with.
Just before Lee teed off with Brit Tony Jacklin, Tony said to Lee, "Lee, I don't want to talk today". Lee looked at Tony and replied, "Tony you don't have to talk. You just have to listen."
He appealed, man to man, to my father….an orphan who dealt with Yale as he he charmed a staid Connecticut Episcopal hierarchy while helping common men and women to navigate daily the tempestuous world of the 50's, 60's and 70s. He came home from the Grester Hartford Open with a joy I didn't get to see enough of( was later on in my life able to U-turn on the Juarez bridge, at least intact, having faced reality in viewing starving children atop MOUNTAINS of stinking garbage within sight of a country on the verge of what we are now accepting as our responsibilities. Wore a beard, helped jazz and folk music come to a church preparing for it's place as an agent of change, recognized through his own experience his place on Earth, and you couldn't, at that time, serve both God and mammon. He had pressed the flesh with one of his own, instead of the pulpit( Pop, king of the 5 minute sermon…" all they to know") his valuable time was in hospitals, schools, 'retirement' homes and there he stayed for another 45 years. Same contagious smile, married to a calming word or a joke if appropriate ( unlike golf, he had important business most days) and for the NEXT 45 years appreciated Lee Treivino, captain of his own soul( probably especially in the office). Never picked up his lefty clubs again and I never played a round that wasn't effected by my Pop being reached that weekend by the great man. Of golf. Appreciate you!
Lee Buck is in my top 5 of all time. If $ is on it top 2.
Was my favorite golfer as a kid. Totally unique, no fear, one of the greatest pure ball strikers of all time. And his personality brought a lot to the game that sorely needed some.
We want to hear it from them!
Some of the comments like" while these other guys used video analysis" is bullshit. All these guys , even though they didn't come from the poverty that Trevino had come from had all worked hard with instruction. Also Trevino predominately played a fade, he could very well draw the ball. Nicklaus prodominately played the fade but also could draw the ball. Hogan like Trevino fought a hook and developed a low fade that worked in the wind. All these youtubes stretch everything a little. Today, Trevino regrets the battle he had with the Masters.
What a waste of time ,,,,,,lot of useless jabber,jabber,jabber
When Lee was on “Around with Alice” it was always good.