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My Shot Playing golf is my profession. Getting under the hood of a car is my passion
By Bruce Lietzke
My first car was a '70 Plymouth Road Runner. I bought it for $3,000 during my freshman year at Houston and learned right away that working on a car is harder than playing golf. I butchered that Road Runner trying to install things like a dual-point distributor, a new exhaust system and a set of headers. Muscle cars are popular among Tour players, who have often asked me to help them find a vintage model. I never could locate the '67 Chevelle that Tom Purtzer wanted, but I did find a '73 Trans Am for Gil Morgan and an '87 Buick GNX for Ben Crenshaw. I own eight cars: the '26 Ford, a '68 Road Runner, two '68 Shelby Mustangs (one's a GT-350, the other a GT-500), a '66 El Camino, a '79 Pontiac Trans Am Firebird, a '91 Corvette with a ZR1 engine and my favorite, a '67 Corvette convertible. I love the Corvette because it reminds me of high school, when we used to cruise 11th Street in Beaumont, Texas, checking out girls and other cars. It's hard to talk about being young when you're 50, which I turned on July 18, but age does have its blessings. I expect to expand my car collection with winnings from the Senior tour. Even better, the tour has a three-month off-season, which is just enough time to boost my El Camino from 250 to 400 horsepower by installing a small-block Chevy engine. Lietzke came in 24th in his Senior debut in the SBC Senior Open.
Issue date: July 30, 2001
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