SHOCKING 
ANNOUNCEMENT: āSAD NEWS
CBS REPORTER AMANDA BALIONIS AND CARMELO JAVIER RĆOS, a senator in Rodriguezā native Puerto Rico. ANNOUNCED THAT Chi Chi Rodriguez the Golf Worldās Swashbuckling Champion, is confirmed dead after being poisoned byā¦ā¦.in theā¦ā¦ā¦
Juan āChi Chiā Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sportās most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88.
Rodriguezās death was announced by Carmelo Javier RĆos, a senator in Rodriguezā native Puerto Rico. He didnāt provide a cause of death.
Chi Chi Rodriguezās passion for charity and outreach was surpassed only by his incredible talent with a golf club in his hand,ā PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. āA vibrant, colorful personality both on and off the golf course, he will be missed dearly by the PGA Tour and those whose lives he touched in his mission to give back. The PGA Tour sends its deepest condolences to the entire Rodriguez family during this difficult time.ā
He was born Juan Antonio Rodriguez, the second oldest of six children, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, when it was blanketed with sugar cane fields and where he helped his father with the harvest as a child. The area is now a dense urban landscape, part of San Juan, the capital of the U.S. island territory.
Rodriguez said he learned to play golf by hitting tin cans with a guava tree stick and then found work as a caddie. He claimed he could shoot a 67 by age 12, according to a biography provided by the Chi Chi Rodriguez Management Group in Stow, Ohio.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1955-57 and joined the PGA Tour in 1960 and won eight times during his 21-year career, playing on one Ryder Cup team.
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