Word: vik
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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...
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 Vik...
...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...
...Vik's 165 total put him in second place individually, one stroke behind tourney medalist John McCann of B.C., who carded 80, 84--164 on the par-71, 6328-yard layout...
...Vik used his seven-iron to tap in a birdie putt on his last hole but still had to sink a number of character-builders to avoid five-putting...