Miller Calls Out TIger
We missed this one, as it happened a few weeks back but interesting reading about one of golfs most hated and loved commentators.
From the Globe and Mail
Tiger Woods doesn't get knocked often in the golf media, but NBC's Johnny Miller launched a couple of shots off the tee yesterday. With his usual candour and edge, Miller said Woods made a mistake and was perhaps presumptuous to speculate in January that winning golf's Grand Slam was "easily within reach."
"I'm not taking a slam at Tiger," said Miller, during a conference call to publicize NBC's coverage of The Players Championship at the Sawgrass golf course in Florida. "But I think the Grand Slam is something you start thinking about on the first of August, after you've won the three other ones."
Woods, recovering from an arthroscopic knee operation, isn't competing at Sawgrass. Given Woods's poor results at the tournament, Miller says he picked the perfect time to undergo surgery. "Tiger Woods hasn't exactly lit in up here," he said. "He's had five rounds of 75 in the last four years. There's no other championship I know where he's shot five 75s."
Miller recited Woods's finishes since winning the event in 2001 – consistently out of the top 10, tied for 53rd in 2005 and tied for 37th last year. "For Tiger, that's as bad as you can possibly do," he said. "So, I can see why his knee needed to be operated on."
Miller was challenged by his NBC colleagues for arguing TPC, because of its strong field and fat purse, is equal to or ahead of the PGA Championship in terms of prestige, behind the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open.
"It's a clear fifth in my book," Roger Maltbie said. "It has the best field of probably any event played throughout in entire year...But that said, it's not one of the big four, and I just don't see how that's going to change."
Said Gary Koch: "This whole fifth major stuff gets a little tiresome. I think it's pretty clear cut. We've got four major championships – and The Players Championship.
Miller reached for his 2-iron.
"All I'm saying is that if you had a player survey... there probably would be a reasonable amount of guys on Tour who would rank [TPC] either a clear fourth or tied for fourth. You definitely would get some votes for that, I promise you."
"I doubt it," Maltbie said.
From the Globe and Mail
Tiger Woods doesn't get knocked often in the golf media, but NBC's Johnny Miller launched a couple of shots off the tee yesterday. With his usual candour and edge, Miller said Woods made a mistake and was perhaps presumptuous to speculate in January that winning golf's Grand Slam was "easily within reach."
"I'm not taking a slam at Tiger," said Miller, during a conference call to publicize NBC's coverage of The Players Championship at the Sawgrass golf course in Florida. "But I think the Grand Slam is something you start thinking about on the first of August, after you've won the three other ones."
Woods, recovering from an arthroscopic knee operation, isn't competing at Sawgrass. Given Woods's poor results at the tournament, Miller says he picked the perfect time to undergo surgery. "Tiger Woods hasn't exactly lit in up here," he said. "He's had five rounds of 75 in the last four years. There's no other championship I know where he's shot five 75s."
Miller recited Woods's finishes since winning the event in 2001 – consistently out of the top 10, tied for 53rd in 2005 and tied for 37th last year. "For Tiger, that's as bad as you can possibly do," he said. "So, I can see why his knee needed to be operated on."
Miller was challenged by his NBC colleagues for arguing TPC, because of its strong field and fat purse, is equal to or ahead of the PGA Championship in terms of prestige, behind the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open.
"It's a clear fifth in my book," Roger Maltbie said. "It has the best field of probably any event played throughout in entire year...But that said, it's not one of the big four, and I just don't see how that's going to change."
Said Gary Koch: "This whole fifth major stuff gets a little tiresome. I think it's pretty clear cut. We've got four major championships – and The Players Championship.
Miller reached for his 2-iron.
"All I'm saying is that if you had a player survey... there probably would be a reasonable amount of guys on Tour who would rank [TPC] either a clear fourth or tied for fourth. You definitely would get some votes for that, I promise you."
"I doubt it," Maltbie said.
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