George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.
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12 Facts About George Archer
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George Archer was kicked off the high school basketball team because he missed too many practices due to golf.
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George Archer turned professional in 1964 and claimed the first of 13 victories on the PGA Tour at the Lucky International Open the following year.
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George Archer was hampered by injuries throughout his career and had surgery on his left wrist, back and left shoulder.
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George Archer won 19 times on the Senior Tour between 1989 and 2000, although he did not win a senior major.
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George Archer is the only player in PGA Tour Champions history to win a tournament in each of the first three decades of its existence.
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George 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.
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George Archer made Masters history in 1983 when he employed its first female caddy, his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth, in the first year that outside caddies were allowed at Augusta National.
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George Archer started caddying for him on tour in the summer of 1980, prior to her senior year at Gilroy High School.
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George Archer died of Burkitt's lymphoma – a lymphatic system malignancy – in Incline Village, Nevada in 2005, several days before his 66th birthday.
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George Archer was survived by his wife, Donna, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Marilyn.
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George Archer 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.
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