If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.

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. He grew to 6 feet 5+1⁄2 inches (1. Archer was hampered by injuries throughout his career and had surgery on his left wrist (1975) back (1979) and left shoulder (1987).

Archer is also the only player in Champions Tour history to win a tournament in each of the first three decades of its existence. Archer was hampered by injuries throughout his career and had surgery on his left wrist (1975) back (1979) and left shoulder (1987). 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.