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In reply to the discussion: Chi Chi Rodriguez. RIP [View all]

ProfessorGAC

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7. One Of Golf's Great Showmen
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 07:01 PM
Aug 2024

Back in the days when golf had a "silly season" they did a skills challenge event.
One of the skills was setting a ball up behind a tree & hit to a green bending it around the tree. If you successfully bent it around left to right, the next shot had to be bent right to left.
ChiChi won that event nearly every year.
He could hit every shot there was.
If he had been bigger & stronger, and wasn't hitting 5 iron while others were hitting 8 or 9, he would have won a ton of tournaments. He only won 8 times (plus 22 on the Senior Tour). He'd have been much more dominant if he wasn't such a little dude.

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