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...pines. Archer was in trouble only once-on the 15th hole, when his second shot plopped into a pond for a one-stroke penalty. After coming back with a precision-wedge shot that dropped 13 ft. from the pin, he relied, as he had through the tournament, on his putter. Hunching over the ball, he holed the 13-footer to save his par-and the match...
Basic Squat. Archer, who was voted Putter of the Year last season by the golf writers, describes his form on the greens as "a basic squatting position," a technique he developed as a caddie in San Francisco. It served him so well that for three years in a row, he was lowest-scoring amateur in the city's Lucky International Open and soon had himself a sponsor, Eugene Selvage, a retired brewery president. Archer was installed at Selvage's 5,000-acre Hereford ranch in Gilroy, Calif., where he painted fences and cleaned out the barns...
...sort of innocence, hard to convey in fiction, or by any other means, that is bound to prove embarrassing. He is also afflicted by unsophisticated surface ills: low grades, loss of a place on the football squad, undone homework, limited television. Dad once menaces him with a putter-when the boy says he would like to drop out of school and suggests, as many American young are doing, that promoting mouthwash is not what man should be all about...
...Crimson has many reasons to be optimistic about the weight events, and one of the biggest is captain Dick Benka, shot-putter supreme. This winter, Benka went undefeated in dual meets, was IC4A and Heptagonal champion, and took fourth place in the NCAA indoor championships...
Harvard's premiere shot-putter, Captain Dick Benka, picked up two points by grabbing fourth place in his event, and junior Keith Colburn collected the Crimson's remaining point with a fifth-place finish in the 1000-yard...