Simple course of Johnny Miller’s collision for the perfection of the ball hit

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Johnny Miller It is one of the biggest attackers of all time. Although in the modern era he has remembered more about his TV career than his game days, it is important to remember that Miller was a ball course in his prime minister.

A reason for his perfection of the ball? The ability to hit each stroke the required course. Whether it is a high or low shot, a draw or a pallor, Miller had the goal in his bag.

Back in July 1974, Miller joined Golf to share some of his secrets in his ball -hit excellence. Check them below and you will surely learn one or two things from one of the greats of all time.

Johnny Miller’s Ball’s shock secrets

I was a young man, I had a lesson a lot of teachers from my father. One day he took me to the Harding Park in San Francisco, with a bag of balls and several clubs, and led me to a small tree choir. When we were almost in the middle, he threw the balls on the ground and showed on the tops of the trees.

“Hit through those openings,” he said.

At first I had great difficulties in choosing a club that would get the ball so high. Inevitably many of the shooting would fall against the limbs and fall to the ground. But the more shots I hit, the easier it was to judge the height. And nowadays when a fierce blow shoots in the woods, I’m sure I can find an opening somewhere.

You can learn from my lesson. Go to the woods and not just find some openings on the tops of the trees, but try to hit the shots between the trees. You will develop accuracy, the ability to recover. Above all, you will learn to hit the ball up.

High ball hit has never been really a problem for me because I have a natural tendency to hit it that way anyway. Everyone from time to time, I will have to hit an extra high stroke, to overcome trees or trouble of a kind. There are plenty of players who think that the secret of this kick stands on a swinging plane outside and an open club. It may be good for them, but it’s not for me. In my opinion, each shot variation should be done with the slightest deviation possible from regular oscillation. If the changes are small, the oscillation will not feel unnatural.

Hood

To hit the ball up, I move the ball forward slightly, just to the left of the left heel. Next, I expand my attitude by moving my right foot a few inches to the right. This automatically moves my upper body behind the ball, which is essential to raise the ball quickly.

With the upper body in the normal position, the tendency will be to hit more on the ball. Jack Nicklaus is the only player I know in the tours that hits down but still produces extremely high iron shots.

That is, in my opinion, because of an extremely strong foot machine in its landing. For the average club player, I recommend those two simple changes: wide attitude and ball forward. Leave the rest in your normal swing.

Fairway Shot bunker

A shot that gives many players problems is the purpose of the street bunker. Like the others I have discussed, the changes here are small. The only thing you don’t want to do is hit the ball fat, especially if you have about 125 to 150 yards to go to green. To make sure you do not, I first recommend what I call “standing up”. With that I mean, instead of staying with your knees naturally, go just a little. This will help you hit the ball first, instead of hitting the sand first. If anything, it is better for half the skull ball than to hit fat and make it travel only 20 meters.

If the ball is resting on raising the bunker, you need to make some compensation. Your swinging aircraft must match the sand contour. In a uppslope you will certainly hit more to prevent the club from digging into the sand and shortening your follow -up. In Downslope would hit down and through to eliminate the risk of reaching the ball.

At any Fairway bunker, make sure you are not catching the club too much. If you catch too tightly, you will become tense and your oscillation will be sharp. Vital is essential to stay loose. Follow the club in order to stay calm on both hands without excessive pressure. Now just keep your swing calm.

Flying

There is another shot on which you can apply the basics of the Fairway bunker hunt – a fluffy lie, where you have to put the club in the bar behind the ball, it can roll and devote you a penalty on the brain. Follow the shaft an inch or more, depending on how much the ball is raised. Keep the club’s head off the ground and stay raised. The club should stay calm in your hands. Now swing smoothly and make a conscious effort to remove the ball from the grass. Here again, hitting down will make you good.

Always is always the player who takes the most into consideration who comes a winner. This is true not only of the professional in the tournament, but also of the club player. Let me ask you a question: Where was the stake in the 18th hole the last time you played? If your answer is “I don’t know”, then it means that the blow you hit in the green was a “hit and I hope a lot”. That’s not good. Always consider setting the pin and the green type, whether you plan to pull it, dim or hit it straight.

Draw

Say the pin is drawn to the left side with lots of green on the right. The type of shock that allows you more space for error is a draw. If you happen to hit it straight, you will continue to grab the green to the right. Even more importantly, if you allow correctly for a draw, and it lands to the right of the hole, will, due to the opposite rotation of the clock scorpions, will take a long slide and roll to the left.

Do you now see how can you make that rotation work for you? You will always have the ball that works towards the hole, ensuring that the lands straight. If you do not allow the equation correctly and it lands left from the hole, the ball will roll out of the pin.

dim

In contrast, if the stake is finished to the right with too green on the left, a pallor would be the right goal. When the ball dims, however, there is significantly more rotation in the ball, which makes it get more a straight bounce when sitting. Then it is a sudden stop. That is why you see so many of Trevino’s shooting rotates again. He dims everything.

punch

If the green slips down from the back to the front, a fist stroke will produce the best results because it has a low trajectory. This is also a good shot in a two -level green. However, I have discovered that a draw will, because of that long pass, fight the hill that goes to the second level, as well as, if not better than, a puncture.

One thing is for sure: if the pin is again in a two -level green, you probably don’t want to hit a high blow. If you jump to the top level, it will pass over the green, and if the squares in the middle, it will certainly roll down to the lower level. So a low shot is always the best.