Jack Nicklaus Schools Johnny Miller on Putting

by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 13, 2010 9:14 AM EDT in Pro Golf

Earlier in the week, Jack Nicklaus went about Christening his new golf course in Benton Harbor, Michigan, with a $1 million team skins game featuring him, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, and Johnny Miller. The four were switching off teams every few holes when they came to the par 5 10th.

Then the storytelling from a caller on the PGA Tour Network takes over. (Or at least a paraphrasing of it.)

The green at the 10th is 10,500 square feet and has two tiers, with an 8 foot mass - nearly a wall - separating the two.

On this hole, Palmer and Miller were teamed together and facing a 100ft or so putt. Palmer hits his putt as hard as he can. It goes up the hill, stops, and comes back to Palmer. Miller sees this, tries to grab his lob wedge from the bag.

Nicklaus yells down to Miller, "You're not hitting lob wedges on my green!" and starts to walk down the hill to them. The Golden Bear nearly trips.

He meets Miller, tells him, "Let me show you how to make this putt" with a wry smile. Nicklaus drops the ball, whacks it and, well...

[Video tip of the hat to With Leather]

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And yet, Miller STILL needed an extra seat on the plane out of town – first class of course – just for his ego. :-)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Aug 13, 2010 9:45 AM EDT reply actions

Benton Harbor Michigan ?

Good luck with this sucker….Don’t know what they will charge to join it, but this baby will be under 5 feet of snow for over 5 mos….that makes the other 7 pretty expensive No?,,,,,STUB

by thinker on Aug 13, 2010 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

ain’t that the truth. as if putting the Nicklaus name on a course didn’t already make it crazy expensive. we recently had a Nicklaus course change hands and they took the Nicklaus name off so more people could afford to play.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Aug 13, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions