Sportsman of the Year


 

  I f golf ever needed a certain kind of man to dull the harsh scorn of its critics, he was found in 1971. Golf found Lee Trevino, a common man with an uncommon touch who has bewitched, bothered and bewildered the custodians of the game's mores. What Lee Trevino has done is take the game out of the country club boardroom and put in the parking lot where everybody—not just doctors and lawyers but Indian chiefs, too—can get at it.

Photograph by Walter Iooss Jr.
Text by Curry Kirkpatrick

In 1971, Lee Trevino won the U.S., British and Canadian Opens in a single month. Trevino, now 57, entered the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981 and joined the Senior Tour in 1989. He is still an active player.

 
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