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Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is a
professional United States|American golfer. He is
an icon for Mexican Americans.  

==Early life==

Lee Buck Trevino was born in Dallas, Texas in
poverty to parents of Mexico|Mexican descent.  His
mother and grandfather, a gravedigger, raised
Trevino. He never knew his father.  Trevino's
childhood amounted to him spending time attending
school occasionally and working to help earn money
for the family.  At the age of five, Lee even
started working in the cotton fields. 

Trevino was introduced to the game of golf when
his uncle gave him a few old golf balls and a
rusty golf club. From this point on, Lee could not
get enough. He spent most of his free time
sneaking into nearby country clubs to practice his
newly found activity.  At eight years old he began
caddying at a local golf course. However, a few
years later, caddying became a full time job
because he needed to earn enough money to survive.
Thus, after eighth grade, Trevino had to leave
school in order to go to work. As a caddy and a
shoe shiner, Lee worked for 30 United States
dollar|U.S. dollars a week. On top of this, Lee
was also able to make priceless gains in his
golfing ability. This was because the caddies had
three short practice holes behind their shack, and
it was there, with old, discarded clubs, that
Trevino learned to improve his golf game.  For
years, everyday after work, he would work on
improving his skills by hitting a least 300 balls
a session.  At seventeen, Trevino joined the
United States Marine Corps and served four years. 
Over the last eighteen months in the service, a
great deal of his time was spent playing golf with
US Marine Corps|Marine Corps officers.

==Professional career== 

After his discharge, Trevino continued his pursuit
of the game.  In 1967, he began playing on the PGA
Tour.  In 1968 at the Oak Hill Country Club
(Rochester, New York) a large goal was reached
when he won the U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open.  From
here on there was no looking back. Over the course
of his career, Trevino won 29 times on the PGA
Tour, including six majors. He was at his best in
the early 1970s, when for a time he was Jack
Nicklaus's biggest rival, winning the money list
title in 1970, and picking up ten wins in two
seasons in 1971 and 1972. Without quite returning
to these heights, he remained one of the world's
leading players for more than another decade,
winning his last major, the 1984 PGA Championship
at the unusually advanced age of 44. When he
retired in 1985, he was the third highest in
earnings in the history of the PGA Tour.  

Trevino also won more than twenty international
and unofficial professional tournaments. In his
fifties he was one of the key charismatic stars
who helped to make the PGA Senior Tour, now the
Champions Tour, a commercial success. He picked up
the same tally of 29 wins on this tour as he had
on the regular tour, including four senior majors.
He topped the senior money list in 1990 and 1992.

Trevino played for the United States in the Ryder
Cup six times, and had an impressive 17-7-6
win-loss-half record. In 1971 he was awarded the
Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the
year and won Sports Illustrated magazine's
"Sportsman of the Year" award.

Trevino has established numerous scholarships and
continues to offer assistance to many Mexican
Americans who are less fortunate.

Through out his career, Trevino was seen as one of
the more approachable and humorous of PGA golfers,
and was frequently quoted by the press. His
self–taught style led to many exciting shots and
and skins game victories.

==PGA Tour wins==
*1968 U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open, Hawaiian Open
*1969 Tucson Open Invitational
*1970 Tucson Open Invitational, National Airlines
Open Invitational
*1971 Tallahassee Open Invitational, FedEx St.
Jude Classic|Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, U.S.
Open (golf)|U.S. Open, Canadian Open, The Open
Championship|British Open, Sahara Invitational
*1972 FedEx St. Jude Classic|Danny Thomas Memphis
Classic, The Open Championship|British Open,
Greater Hartford Open Invitational, Greater St.
Louis Golf Classic
*1973 Honda Classic|Jackie Gleason
Inverrary-National Airlines Classic, Ford
Championship at Doral|Doral-Eastern Open
*1974 Greater New Orleans Open, PGA Championship
*1975 Bay Hill Invitational|Florida Citrus Open
*1976 Colonial National Invitation
*1977 Canadian Open
*1978 Colonial National Invitation
*1979 Canadian Open
*1980 The Players Championship|Tournament Players
Championship, FedEx St. Jude Classic|Danny Thomas
Memphis Classic, San Antonio Texas Open
*1981 Mercedes Championships|MONY Tournament of
Champions
*1984 PGA Championship

Major championships are shown in bold.

==Champions Tour wins==

*1990  Royal Caribbean Classic,  Aetna Challenge, 
Vintage Chrysler Invitational,  Doug Sanders
Kingwood Celebrity Classic,  NYNEX Commemorative, 
U.S. Senior Open,  Transamerica Senior Golf
Championship  
*1991  Aetna Challenge,  Vantage At The Dominion, 
Charley Pride Classic 
*1992  Vantage At The Dominion,  The Tradition, 
PGA Seniors' Championship,  Las Vegas Senior
Classic,  Bell Atlantic Classic
*1993  Cadillac NFL Golf Classic,  Nationwide
Championship,  Vantage Championship  
*1994  Royal Caribbean Classic,  PGA Seniors'
Championship,  PaineWebber Invitational,  Bell
Atlantic Classic,  BellSouth Senior Classic at
Opryland,  Northville Long Island Classic  
*1995  Northville Long Island Classic,  The
Transamerica  
*1996  Emerald Coast Classic  
*1998  Southwestern Bell Dominion  
*2000  Cadillac NFL Golf Classic 

Senior majors are shown in bold.

==Other wins==

*1969 WGC-World Cup|World Cup (with Orville Moody)

*1971 WGC-World Cup|World Cup (with Jack Nicklaus)

*1974 WGC-NEC Invitational|World Series of Golf
(not yet a PGA Tour event)
*1975 Mexican Open 
*1977 Morocco Grand Prix 
*1978 Benson & Hedges International Open, Lancome
Trophy (European Tour) 
*1979 Canadian PGA Championship 
*1980 Lancome Trophy 
*1981 Sun City Classic (South Africa), PGA Grand
Slam of Golf (United States - unofficial event) 
*1983 Canadian PGA Championship 
*1985 Dunhill British Masters
*1987 Skins Game
*1991 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Mike
Hill) 
*1992 Mitsukoshi Classic, Liberty Mutual Legends
of Golf (with Mike Hill) 
*1993 American Express Grandslam 
*1994 American Express Grandslam 
*1995 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Mike
Hill) 
*1996 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Mike
Hill), Australian PGA Seniors' Championship 
*2003 ConAgra Foods Champions Skins Game

==See also==
*Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
*Golfers with most major championship wins
*Golfers with most Champions Tour wins
*Golfers with most Champions Tour major
championship wins

==References==

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas, The Mexican American
Family Album.  New York:  Oxford University Press,
1994.

==External Links==
*http://www.pgatour.com/players/intro/132230
Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
*http://golf.about.com/od/leetrevino/ Lee Trevino
on About.com Profile, stats and quotes
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/T/Lee_Trevino/ Lee
Trevino at Golf Stars Online Directory of
interviews, sites and feature articles with or
about him