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George William Archer (October 1, 1939 – September 25, 2005) was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship. Archer was born in San Francisco, California and was raised just south in the city of San Mateo. He grew to 6 feet 5½ inches (1.97 m) tall, and as a boy he dreamed of a basketball career, but he took up golf at San Mateo High School after working as a caddy at The Peninsula Golf and Country Club near his home. He turned professional in 1964 and claimed the first of 12 victories on the PGA Tour at the Lucky International Open the following year. The leading achievement of his career was his win at the 1969 Masters Tournament. His other top ten finishes in the majors came at the U.S. Open, where he came 10th in 1969, 5th in 1971, and at the PGA Championship, where he took 4th place in 1968. Archer was hampered by injuries throughout his career and has had surgery on his left wrist (1975), back (1979), left shoulder (1987). In 1996 he had his right hip replaced and two years later he became the first man to win on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) after having a hip replacement. In total he won nineteen times on the Senior Tour between 1989 and 2000, but he did not win a senior major. Archer is considered one of the game's all-time great putters, and at one time held the PGA Tour record for fewest putts over four rounds with 95 putts at the 1980 Sea Pines Heritage Classic. He is also the only player in Champions Tour history to win a tournament in all decades of its existence. Archer was known as the "Golfing Cowboy," due to a summer job in his youth at his friend and sponsor, Eugene Selvage's Lucky Hereford Ranch in Gilroy, California.[1][2] Archer died in Incline Village, Nevada in 2005.
[edit] IlliteracySix months after his death, Archer's widow, Donna, revealed in the March/April 2006 issue of Golf For Women magazine that he had suffered his entire life from a severe form of learning impairment. Despite years of effort and the consultation of many experts, he was never able to read more than the simplest sentences and could only write his own name. She reported that they never revealed this truth beyond their family and that Archer lived in constant fear that the secret of his illiteracy would be revealed.[1] [edit] Quotations"One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good." "When I joined the tour in 1964, I told my wife I wanted to play five years. Instead, I've played five careers." "If it weren't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today."[3] [edit] Amateur wins (1)[edit] Professional wins (42)[edit] PGA Tour wins (12)
Major championship is shown in bold. [edit] Other wins (7)
[edit] Senior PGA Tour wins (19)
[edit] Other senior wins (4)
[edit] Major Championships[edit] Wins (1)
[edit] Results timeline
DNP = Did not play [edit] References
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