Chi Chi Rodriguez was born on Puerto Rico in 1935 and, according to his PGA Tour bio, he “gravitated to golf by hitting tin cans with a guava tree stick.”
He would join the U.S. Army at age 19 and later ventured out on his professional golf career. He didn’t win until age 28 but he earned eight PGA Tour victories in all and another 22 on the PGA Tour Champions.
Whenever he teed it up, eyeballs gravitated to him. He was famous for his sword routine on the greens after making big putts.
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Rodriguez died at the age of 88 on Aug. 8, 2024. Check out some photos of Chi Chi through the years.