Be Good Johnny
Posted at 5:56 PM by Damon Hack | Categories:
Johnny Miller
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Players Championship
It's been awhile since I've heard that Men At Work tune, but I'm actually referring to NBC's Johnny Miller. He might be the best thing the Players Championship has going this weekend. Few announcers move so deftly between throwing jabs and enlightening the viewers. As Phil Mickelson stood on the par-3 17th tee today -- a hole that has bedeviled him for years -- Miller showed no mercy in describing his past mistakes. "He's found more water than Magellan," Miller said. When NBC then showed a slow-motion view of Mickelson's swing -- shorter and tighter under the tutelage of Butch Harmon -- Miller observed: "If he'd had that swing in his 20s, I'm not sure he wouldn't have had a career similar to Tiger's."
Posted by: Golfer | May 12, 2008 10:32:24 AM
Phil is on Callaway's payroll and I have seen Miller on Callaway Ads assuming he is too. Needless to guess the need by Miller to create a hype around Phil.
Adam Scott has had the swing in 20s like Tiger too and Miller's view it is more like Tiger's 2000 swing.
My humble opinion: it is not swing, it is what's inside that counts.