Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the final round of the Mas ters tournament in Augusta, Ga., last week, spectators following George Archer began shouting, "Charge! Charge!" Recalls Archer: "I said to myself, 'I left my credit card at home. I'll take the cash...
...needed all his cool going into the final 18 holes of the Masters. Behind by one stroke, Archer won by playing a cautious par round, while such renowned rivals as Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were getting lost in the Georgia 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...
Jack Purdy, who shot a 155, placed highest for the Crimson golf team, finishing fifth. Purdy's 77 for the first 18 holes was Harvard's lowest score in the first round. He played a steady game, shooting par for 26 of the holes. In the remaining ten holes, Purdy birdied two, bogeyed seven, double-bogeyed one, and triple-bogeyed the second hole of the first round...
...Crimson finished 26 strokes ahead of its nearest competitor, M.I.T. The Engineers had been ahead by 8 after the first round...
...best score for a single round, was LoPucki's 76 on the back 18. The Crimson captain finished with a 158. Yank Heisler, on stroke behind LoPucki, putted poorly throughout the match but managed to shoot a 77 in the last round...