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1935–2021 · Río Piedras · Sports • Golf

Born October 23, 1937 in Río Piedras. Legendary golfer Chi-Chi Rodríguez maintained strong ties to Isabela and helped promote golf tourism across Puerto Rico, making him closely associated with the municipality's golfing identity.

Rodríguez began as a caddy at age 6, and practiced on tin cans with a homemade golf club fashioned from a branch of a guava tree. It has been said that Puerto Rican golf was born with "Chichi," who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he was one of the top ten in the Professional Golf Circuit. In 1967 he published Chichi's Secrets of Power Golf.