Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on October 23, 1935, Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" RodrÃguez is the first Puerto Rican who was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Juan Antonio came from a poor family. He is the son of a cattle handler and laborer who earned just $18 in one week. He also has five other siblings. At an early age of seven, to help augment his family's income, Juan Antonio started working for a sugar plantation as a water carrier. One day, he passed by a golf course and found that caddies earned more that he decided to be a caddie from then on.
He started practicing golf by using a branch of a guava tree as his golf club and metal as a golf ball. He would observe how the real golfers play and apply what he has learned from them. Thus, he became a skilled golfer through self study. At the age of nine, he was a proficient golfer and by the time he turned 12, he achieved a surprising score of 67.
When Juan Antonio joined the army at the age of 19, he would often spend his break times to visit nearby golf course and hone his golfing skills. In 1960, he became a professional golfer. In 1963, at the very young age of 28, Juan Antonio won the prestigious Denver Open. From 1963 to 1979, he won a total of eight titles on PGA Tour. He also represented his home country for 12 World Cup teams, received the Hispanic Recognition Award in 1986, named as Replica's Hispanic Man of the Year in 1988, was inducted in World Golf Hall of Fame in 1922.
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