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How golf and work with Harrison Mevis prepared Mizzou kicker Blake Craig for starting role

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — You can learn a lot about a placekicker by playing golf with him, apparently.

That’s what Harrison Mevis says, anyway, and the golf course is where the former Missouri kicker realized that Blake Craig, his successor, has the mental wherewithal to impress in the college game.

Kicking, Mevis explained to the Post-Dispatch this week, “is a lot like golf. It’s 90% mental and 10% physical. ... What do you do when you miss a kick? Do you go downhill?