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Word: alex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Captain Alex Vik, who along with Paxton was playing his last round for Harvard, shot his second straight 86. Vik found a watery grave on the sixth hole, where he had a nine. His second shot dunked into the creek that runs down the left side of the fairway. He rolled up his trousers and took a swipe at the immersed ball, but only managed to nudge it a little farther upstream. He finally splashed his fourth shot onto terra firma...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Linksters Slip, Slide to Sixth In NCAA Qualifying Tourney; Elis Win Championship Berth | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's Alex Vik carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Linksters Blow Up at NCAA Qualifying Yale Proves Too Tough | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...number one for Harvard, Alex Vik hitched up his polyesters a la Arnold Palmer and fired a 79 for the morning, the only round under 80 for the entire tournament. Vik ballooned to an 86 for his second 18, putting with his seven-iron on the corrugated greens...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Take Greater Boston Tourney | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

Following Alexander for the linksmen were Captain Alex Vik. who carded a 78, and Jim Dales, who came in at 80 despite his whiskey-jerk putting touch on the greens. Spence Fitzgibbons logged a lackluster 11-over...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Manhandles Golfers in Hanover | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...occasion at the long par-4 tenth hole and took, in the ever-inventive golf vernacular, a "snow man." "You know what a snow man looks like," said Paxton, "One ball of snow on top of another--an 8!" Paxton shot 81. George Arnold managed an 85. Alex Vik and Glenn Alexander eschewed the carnage in favor of hourlies...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

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