From Caddie To Top Golfer

SELEBI-PHIKWE: The name Johannes Moilwa is not likely to elicit an immediate reaction from most people. But in local golf circles, he has won several accolades for his meteoric rise in the game.

Moilwa has defied the odds to rise to the top of the game. Because of grinding poverty in his family, he did not receive much education. His fairy tale story reads like that of Lee Trevino, a caddie-turned-golfer from Texas in the United States, who grew up in a poor family.

Trevino was raised by his mother, a domestic hand and his grandfather, a gravedigger. His father was never part of his life. Trevino's family stayed in a four-roomed house without electricity and he was forced to quit school after the seventh grade.
He took up employment as a groundskeeper and worked as a caddie on the side. He was eight by the time. Trevino would regularly play a few holes at the end of the day. He transformed into a brilliant golfer, described by many commentators as having an unusual swing.

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