Trevino's clubs

[DallasSteve]

Trevino still lives in Dallas, and his reputation here is not great.

I completely echo the sentiments about David Graham. What a class act and a real gentleman with the fans, even when the cameras are not around.

[johnnypro]

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[quote name='rgk5' timestamp='1311765695' post='3427894']
The Golden Ram blades he used were a gift from his friend Cesar Sanudo, a great player from Mexico. At one time, his SW was a Ben Hogan Special SI, like the one I still have.

From time to time he used a Power-Bilt persimmon driver. Lee's 8802 style putter was about 5* flatter than normal.

Wrap leather grips were his preference.
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In his prime years, his driver was a MacGregor / Toney Penna EOM 60 with an aluminum pin in the insert surrounded by four screws.
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That's exactly what he played. Beat me to the punch.
Leather grips, too, I believe.

[markheardjr]

[quote name='jmvargas' timestamp='1308811480' post='3329108']
.........seems he could play with almost any clubs.....just goes to show how good an "injun" he was!!!

.......any arrow would do!!!
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I can't find any references to Lee Trevino calling himself that. Lee was of Mexican decent, not Native American. That term in quotations is considered racially offensive, FYI.

[johnnypro]

[quote name='markheardjr' timestamp='1400022647' post='9289495']
[quote name='jmvargas' timestamp='1308811480' post='3329108']
.........seems he could play with almost any clubs.....just goes to show how good an "injun" he was!!!

.......any arrow would do!!!
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I can't find any references to Lee Trevino calling himself that. Lee was of Mexican decent, not Native American. That term in quotations is considered racially offensive, FYI.
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When a golfer has a tendency to blame his club for a bad shot, he inevitably will be told, "it's the Indian, not the arrow."
Indian = the golfer
Arrow = the club
Get it now????

As Andy Dufresne said to Warden Norton, "How can you be so obtuse?"

[nova6868]

Yes, but calling an Indian person "injun" is about like calling a white person a "crackah".

Not exactly polite.

[ROPERSTJ]

[1badbadger]

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[quote name='johnnypro' timestamp='1316459452' post='3574524']
[quote name='rgk5' timestamp='1311765695' post='3427894']
The Golden Ram blades he used were a gift from his friend Cesar Sanudo, a great player from Mexico. At one time, his SW was a Ben Hogan Special SI, like the one I still have.

From time to time he used a Power-Bilt persimmon driver. Lee's 8802 style putter was about 5* flatter than normal.

Wrap leather grips were his preference.
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In his prime years, his driver was a MacGregor / Toney Penna EOM 60 with an aluminum pin in the insert surrounded by four screws.
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That's exactly what he played. Beat me to the punch.
Leather grips, too, I believe.
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I was working at a golf shop in Fort Worth that was well known for club work/repair, and one day in about 2001 or 2002 we got a call from the tour department at Ben Hogan which wasn't too far away. They were building a set of irons for Trevino with leather grips, and they didn't have enough underlistings. We had some, so they came and got them, but they mentioned that it would probably be the last time they would be able to use leather. I don't know if they built him anymore sets out of that shop before it was moved or not.

[dave willie]

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[quote name='markheardjr' timestamp='1400022647' post='9289495']
[quote name='jmvargas' timestamp='1308811480' post='3329108']
.........seems he could play with almost any clubs.....just goes to show how good an "injun" he was!!!

.......any arrow would do!!!
[/quote]
I can't find any references to Lee Trevino calling himself that. Lee was of Mexican decent, not Native American. That term in quotations is considered racially offensive, FYI.
[/quote]

When a golfer has a tendency to blame his club for a bad shot, he inevitably will be told, "it's the Indian, not the arrow."
Indian = the golfer
Arrow = the club
Get it now????

As Andy Dufresne said to Warden Norton, "How can you be so obtuse?"
[/quote]It's the archer, not the arrow is a less offensive version. Webster defines 'obtuse' as "1. Lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility: Insensitive." Who's the Warden in this discussion?

[johnnypro]

[quote name='dave willie' timestamp='1400104273' post='9296481']
[quote name='johnnypro' timestamp='1400072933' post='9292641']
[quote name='markheardjr' timestamp='1400022647' post='9289495']
[quote name='jmvargas' timestamp='1308811480' post='3329108']
.........seems he could play with almost any clubs.....just goes to show how good an "injun" he was!!!

.......any arrow would do!!!
[/quote]
I can't find any references to Lee Trevino calling himself that. Lee was of Mexican decent, not Native American. That term in quotations is considered racially offensive, FYI.
[/quote]

When a golfer has a tendency to blame his club for a bad shot, he inevitably will be told, "it's the Indian, not the arrow."
Indian = the golfer
Arrow = the club
Get it now????

As Andy Dufresne said to Warden Norton, "How can you be so obtuse?"
[/quote]It's the archer, not the arrow is a less offensive version. Webster defines 'obtuse' as "1. Lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility: Insensitive." Who's the Warden in this discussion?
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For your astuteness, you've just won season tickets to Washington Redskins games!!!

[cardoustie]

How about the Cleveland Indians games or the Atlanta Braves? The college Seminoles are also good

As an aside, one of my regular playing partners is a Mohawk Indian, and we can call him whatever we want .... and he loves it. Let's not get too PC (again)

[dasbill]

I'm an injun, red man, redskin, Native American, Cherokee. No big deal here and I am tired of the PC society as well. Just call it what it is I say. Now back to the previously scheduled program.

[tembolo1284]

Does anybody know what he plays now?

[playa]

[quote name='nova6868' timestamp='1400074544' post='9292801']
Yes, but calling an Indian person "injun" is about like calling a white person a "crackah".

Not exactly polite.
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Cracker is my favorite adjective for American sothern folk. Sounds so much better than red neck. Good ol boy gets an honorable mention.

[johnnypro]

[quote name='nova6868' timestamp='1400074544' post='9292801']
Yes, but calling an Indian person "injun" is about like calling a white person a "crackah".

Not exactly polite.
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I think we're talking about Native Americans here. An "Indian person" is a person from India.

[LONG&STR8]

[quote name='tembolo1284' timestamp='1400192131' post='9304095']
Does anybody know what he plays now?
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Saw him play at a Champions tour tournament a few years back at the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, CA and he was playing TM woods. TM Superfast 1.0 driver so he's moved on from the traditional look of drivers as that was as UN traditional as it gets in terms of looks. Still had lead tape on it though. I think he's playing Callaway now.

[tembolo1284]

I got a soft spot for john letters sticks.

[tembolo1284]

[quote name='dasbill' timestamp='1400168508' post='9300953']
I'm an injun, red man, redskin, Native American, Cherokee. No big deal here and I am tired of the PC society as well. Just call it what it is I say. Now back to the previously scheduled program.
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I like that avatar.

[67VIP]

[quote name='rex235' timestamp='1311438399' post='3416740']
Speaking of not forgetting-

If my memory serves me -

Lee Buck Trevino was using a Wilson Helen Hicks National Champion Dot Punch Face Sand Wedge("which he referred to as Miss Helen")
The Ping Putter he was kissing when he won the 1984 PGA at Shoal Creek over Gary Player was an A Blade-

As to his career-
The only major he didn't win was the Masters, where he uncharacteristicly gave Nicklaus 2 shots a round... (and Jack certainly didn't mind)
He has at least two of the other three-all during Nicklaus' prime.
Those 3 National Championships in the same month (US Open, British Open, and Canadian Open) a few years after Hogan, and before somebody named Woods......
And that '72 British Open stops Jack from the third leg of the Slam....when ABC broke into it's live programming (then tape delayed telecasts were the norm) to say "Lee Trevino had finished 6 under, and Jack Nicklaus was 5 under..."

And who kept Jack from that 1990 US Senior Open after he turned 50 at Ridgewood?

It's some of the best 30 seconds of TV player commentary ever... (sorry Johnny).......

Trevino describes in depth how Jack Nicklaus "has been peeking on this length putt...not keeping his head down"
and as if on cue, Nicklaus peeks....and ....lips out !

Trevino then exclaimed...."Gimme the Trophy"

I later saw Trevino with Herman Mitchell in MI at the Champions Tour Stop-
He was all Spalding Top Flite, with lead tape in some of those cavity back irons-

If Trevino says he can fix Tiger ......
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I remember Lee saying that...and as the story goes it really pissed off Jack. The next year (1991) Jack took 3 of 4 senior majors and destroyed Lee at the senior players championship, shot 28 under with back to back 63s on the weekend, and won by 7. Lee said afterwards if you'd told him he'd shoot 21 under and not win he would have bet you a million dollars.

[Jack Pearsall]

Did Trevino ever take a full turn?

[Texsport]

Full shoulder turn back and through with a shorter, connected arm swing, particularly the right side back and thru impact. Don't need a big arm swing. In the persimmon era he drove it 245-250 yds and the longest players hit it 275-280 yds.

His turn is pretty short now, but so is everyone's when you get past 70!

I seem to recall that he tipped his irons differently - possibly so that all the 1st steps were the same.

Texsport

[wlgray]

Custom made Australian Blades. Check a recent Golf Digest interview.

[metrybill]

I caddied at the New Orleans Open in 1969-1970. One evening I left a parking lot behind Trevino's car. The light in the car came on as the driver's door opened and sparks started coming off the pavement, off and on for a stretch until the car door closed. The next day I asked his caddie what that was all about and he told me Trevino was sharpening the leading edge and grinding off the bounce because of Lakewood's tight fairways and firm bunkers.

[hef63303]

Trevino's clubs always had the markings of whatever he was endorsing at the time. His endorsements were many. As to who really built the clubs he played with and what brand they really were, you would have to dig deeper. I know, when he was with Faultless, the Faultless brand was stamped into the lead tape on the back of the club and no one ever saw what the real brand was. Not uncommon for the times. No one really dug into tour clubs like we do now.

[EKELLY]

Custom made Australian Blades. Check a recent Golf Digest interview.

I had Maxfli Australian's, they were sweet!!....

[rgk5]

Through much of the 1970s he used a Power-Bilt Citation persimmon driver and set of Ram Tour Grind forgings given to him by Cesar Sanudo(sp?). The putter was an 8802/8813 type and the SW was a Hogan Special SI. No clue on his fairway woods.

 

Oops, I already posted in this thread. Ergo, I am a .....

[BD57]

Followed Trevino every shot but one at the 1973 Inverrary Classic (he won by 1 over Forrest Fezzler; arrived late on Sunday, just before he hit his second shot into #1).

 

He was playing the Ram irons then.

[Ivyguy]

Third greatest ball striker in history.

 

Hogan

Jack

Trevino

[johnnypro]

My all time favorite Trevino quote:

 

"I know people in Dallas. Trust me. Oswald didn't act alone."

 

Trouble is nobody gives a $hit anymore.

[SPY ZINGER]

His bag this weekend:

 

[neilc]

My all time favorite Trevino quote:

 

"I know people in Dallas. Trust me. Oswald didn't act alone."

 

Trouble is nobody gives a $hit anymore.

 

They should.

 

Harbinger of things to come