Johnny Miller’s tips to never hit a shot from the borders

Golf guidance is always developing, but the best advice lies in the test of time. In the new Golf.com series, eternal tips, we are emphasizing some of the biggest tips that teachers and players have shared on the Golf Magazine pages. Today we look back at our September 1983 number when Johnny Miller shared some great tips on keeping your shots in the game.

One of the easiest ways to lower your handicap – and quickly – is from Eliminate penalty kicks. And which club is guilty that costs you the most punished blows? The driver.

With the big stick in your hands, you need to be able to get the ball in the game. If you can’t get off your finger without costing yourself, you will not be able to post low results. That is why it is important for you to develop a strong stroke that you can support to avoid trouble.

This does not mean that you have to be accurate with your driver outside. In fact, you can avoid trouble from tee simply using a smarter strategy. Back to the September 1983 number of Golf, Johnny Miller explained how. Check below.

Tips for Johnny Miller’s Tee-Shot

You are facing a difficult situation in which you have to hit a blow that Golf magazine survey confirms as the “most scared” by amateur golf. There are great trouble – water or outside the borders – to the left and/or right of your landing area. What to do?

As a general rule, the best link is to go with your strongest purpose, whether a low slice or a duck stroke. Don’t worry about her aesthetics, just aim away from trouble and get the ball on the street.

Second, when you aim for a blow like this, do not try to choose an exact place for the ball to finish – trying to be very accurate can cause a shaky problem. Instead, try something that is showing me Pro Tour Pro Mike Reid: Look at all you have. Note the size of the area in which the ball can end safely; Now focus throughout that area. You will be much quieter.

Third, in the case of OB, you should think of keeping the ball as low as possible. In the air it predicts the risk, on the ground predicts safety. A high, floating shot can result in great trouble when touched down. So use a low tee. Remember, low balls usually don’t go away from the line.

Of course, there are times when you are uncomfortable using your strongest purpose. If the trouble is on the left, and your best shot is a slice, you may need to start the ball that goes to the markers to get back to the highway. That is why you finally have to learn to move the ball in both ways.

There are two schools of thought about strategy in one situation with OB or water from one side or the other. The first school says to start the ball in trouble and work away from it. The second says to start it and work the ball back to the trouble. I agree on this second method as well as Jack Nicklaus.

When you go to the top with water to the right and hit the ball in danger, pulling it back on the road, there are four options, two of them leave you with a penalty kick.

1. You can pull the stroke exactly as planned.
2. You can tie the ball a lot.
3. You can hit the ball straight.
4. You can insert the ball into the drink.

But if you follow my method, I think the percentages are in your favor.

My method

Address the ball on the right side of the tee, start the shooting well left out of the water, dimming it again. Then all four options look like this:

1. The blow comes planned.
2. You hit the ball straight.
3. You tie the ball.
4 You cut the ball a lot and find water.

Just the last of these results in a penalty kick.

When you try to dim the ball in such a situation as this, paint it lower than usual; This encourages the tendency to swing from the outside. When I have faced the necessity to hit this blow from left to right, I even went to the point of placement of the ball on the ground with the driver, just to guarantee the low religions. Now take your stay a little further away from the ball than usual. Although this encourages an attraction of types, it is insurance against the start of the ball far.

Slightly trim your back and remove your hands from the action almost completely. To do this, grab a little harder than usual, especially with the left hand. This consistency will result in the club’s beating glove again in the Top, which translates to an open club in Impact.

To help the draw (trouble on the left), paint the ball slightly higher than usual, encouraging a full, free pace. Keep the club slightly easier than usual, so you can let your hands easily shut down the club through influence.

Again, your distance from the ball can make a difference. In this case, stay a little closer to the ball. From this position, it is almost impossible to pull the ball. In fact, more often than you will push the ball.