Rick Rhoden

Former Major League All-Star Pitcher, Current PGA Champions Tour Member

Career Highlights: One of only a handful of players to have played two professional sports (golf and baseball), Rick Rhoden currently is a professional golfer who pitched for 15 years in the major leagues, winning 151 games…A two-time All-Star, Rhoden played for the 1977 and 1978 National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers…He also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees and Houston Astros…One of the best hitting pitchers of his era, Rhoden won three consecutive Silver Slugger Awards (1984-86) in the National League…He was the only pitcher to start as a designated hitter…He hit .375 (15-40) for the Pirates in 1980…In 413 career games, Rhoden compiled a 151-125 record, a 3.59 ERZ, 1,419 strikeouts, and one save.  He also hit nine home runs and had 75 RBIs…Rhoden was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1999...After retiring from baseball in 1989, Rhoden pursued a golf career becoming a dominant player on the Celebrity Players Tour winning over 50 titles including six at the Lake Tahoe tournament…He also plays on the PGA Champions Tour and has three career top-10 finishes and has amassed over $350,000 in earnings…After neck surgery during the 2007 season, Rhoden went back to the Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament this past fall finishing tied for first place earning him a spot into open qualifiers at all regular Champions Tour events in 2008…A perennial tournament favorite in Lake Tahoe, Rhoden has won the American Century Championship six times (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003), and finished second five times and third three times…Under the original format, he shot a tournament record 207 (nine-under-par) in both 1993 and 1997…In addition to the American Century Championship, Rhoden has won more than 50 Celebrity Players Tour events and is celebrity golf’s all-time winner and money leader.

Updated: May, 2008
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