Life After Baseball: A Second Career in Golf
Since retiring from baseball in 1989, Rhoden has spent a lot of time on the golf course. He has qualified for the United States Senior Open, and has become a dominant player on the Celebrity Players Tour.
Rhoden has also played a number of Champions Tour events and has three career top-10 finishes: T-5 in the 2003 Allianz Championship, T-6 in the 2006 3M Championship and T-8 in the 2005 Constellation Energy Classic. His career earnings on the Champions Tour exceed $250,000. He became conditionally exempt for the 2006 season. Rhoden's 2007 season was scuttled due to neck surgery, forcing him into the Tour's 2007 qualifying school. He finished joint first place over the four-day event, earning him a spot into open qualifiers at all regular Champions Tour events in 2008.
Rhoden currently lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Rhoden is a regular competitor at the American Century Celebrity Golf Classic, the annual competition to determine the best golfers among American sports and entertainment celebrities. He won the tournament in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2008 and 2009, and has a total of eighteen top ten finishes. The tournament, televised by NBC in July, is played at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
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