How did Johnny Miller get so good at distance control?

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birdie_man

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That's it peeps. What's the Johnny Method? Someone in here must know.

I got to thinking of him cause..........while my distance control is getting better- it still is poop.
 
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thefuture37

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He used a very weak grip so that he always had the same forward lean at impact. I think that info is from his interview segment on the Jim Mclean half hour show on him.
 
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holeout

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Johnny's control of forward shaft lean is key I think. Even he talks about his grip being so weak that he always put the same loft on the club at impact.
 
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dannyc

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what johnny says about his own golf swing has to be taken with a grain of salt imo...he has been known to exaggerate a tad...
that being said, i agree that the forward lean and application of "true loft" could be the reason...
 
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thefuture37

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dannyc said:
what johnny says about his own golf swing has to be taken with a grain of salt imo...he has been known to exaggerate a tad...
that being said, i agree that the forward lean and application of "true loft" could be the reason...
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if you can't take the man at his word than don't worry about it at all. his ballstriking abilities may not have lasted that long, but he is the only pro I've ever heard of that got his yardages to the half yard.
 
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Brian Manzella

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Johnny Miller.

He was my idol when I was a young golfer.

In person, he carried himself like a star. He WAS a star.

He had his own line of clothes at Sears!!

He won the '73 US Open, the '73 World Cup, 8 PGA TOUR events in '74, and the first two PGA TOUR events in '75—by 14 and 15 shots!!!

He won more after that, including the '76 Open—and who knows what happens if he makes the putt on 18 in the '75 Masters—but really, he had reached the top of the mountain.

He hit the ball so PRETTY, it just floated.

How?

He made a really goof swing, but the unusual part was his weak grip and rapid hand rotation through impact, and a FADE.

He was BETTER than he says he was.
 
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