Johnny Archer

Johnny Archer, nicknamed the Scorpion after his zodiac sign, is an American professional pool player born on November 12, 1968, who grew up in Twin City, Georgia, and began playing at the age of twelve. He is a two-time WPA World Nine-ball Champion, winning in 1992 over Bobby Hunter and in 1997 over Lee Kun-fang of Chinese Taipei, and he won the 1999 U.S. Open. He has won more than a hundred professional tournaments and was named Billiards Digest Player of the Decade for the 1990s. He joined the U.S. Mosconi Cup team a record seventeen times, winning on nine of those occasions, and he also writes instruction columns for Inside Pool Magazine.