Custom template fields Drupal 7
I figured I would reply to this question since I figured out an answer.  Don't know if this is the best way, but it works. 

If you use the views-view-fields.tpl templates, you can skip the loop and directly list and style your fields ie:

print $fields['title']-&gt;content; 
print $fields['field_location']-&gt;content; 


**the code above is inside your php tags