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George Archer

Though 6-6 and a Masters champion, George Archer took pains to live his life under the radar. About the most attention he ever received was when it was posthumously revealed that he was functionally illiterate. Full Article at Golf Digest

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  1. We had an apartment right across the street at the time ... At midnight, when he told me, 'I'm going to go out and putt,' I knew it wasn't a big fib. All I had to do was look out the window, and there he was.
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  2. I wasn't very good for a long time ... I kept getting money games because I looked like a guy you could beat. The thing I had going for me was that I loved to play, and still do. I just kept playing.
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  3. George told me when we met that he had felt suicidal as a teenager because he couldn't read ... He always said if hadn't been for Peninsula, he would have ended up a bum or worse.
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