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...advent of the nineteenth century the intrepid explorer William Clark decided to found the town nestled in the western tip of Kentucky where the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers mingle their waters. Clark named the new settlement Paducah in honor of his friend Chief Paduke, the renowned chief of the Chickesaw Indians. He then embarked on what proved to be a transcontinental trip with another friend by the name of Lewis...
...days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father at the tender age of six. By the age of 13, he was heading out to the golf course early in the morning only...
Like most outstanding golfers, the bread and butter of his game is putting and like many golfers he is willing to prate indefinitely on this science. "You have to practice putting but I think it's hard to learn," he says in his Paducah patois, "I just practice and experiment. In the Kentucky State Amateur one year I had only 23 putts for a round--that's 13 one-putt greens. Some days from 15 feet out you stand over it and you stand over it and you know you're going to make it. On a bad green...
While Paxton may have the putting touch of a Swiss watchmaker, he can also powder the ball with the best of them. In the warmer climes of Paducah he regularly drives 280-290 yards. In a practice round before the NCAA Qualifying Tournament, he hit a humongous seven-iron onto a 228-yard par-three ninth hole...
Joining Vik in the Florida jaunt will be two-year letterman Spence Fitzgibbons, journeyman Dave "Paducah" Paxton, juniors Chris Ball and Ron Himelman, George Arnold, and highly-touted freshmen Glenn Alexander and Brett Johnson...