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Chi Chi Rodriguez Dies: Eight-Time PGA Tour Winner Was 88
Rodriguez was one of golf's most colorful and charitable players.
“Some of the players objected to me putting my hat over the hole, so former Commissioner Joe Dey asked me to stop,” Rodriguez once told the L.A. Times. Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 23, 1935, he nearly died at age four from rickets and tropical sprue, a chronic deficiency disease. His PGA Tour bio notes that he worked as a caddie in his native country, learning to play golf by smacking a tin can with a guava tree limb.
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