Johnny Miller is an Idiot?

Here's a cool article I found on some lash back from Johnny's comments about Hank Haney.

Enjoy the read...

Brad Redding is a Golf Magazine Top 100 teacher and a disciple of Hank Haney and he’s interviewed by golf.com’s Farrell Evans

The Haney/Woods parting of the ways has received lots of coverage and as regular readers are well aware of the fact I try to refrain from adding to the ad nauseum coverage of the life and times of Tiger Woods. In fact I find the golf writers’ obsession with Tiger stories, a pain in the neck, metaphorically speaking and nothing to do with Tiger’s latest health issue.

However when Bred Redding says, “Johnny Miller is an Idiot” then I just had to go there and find out more.

Judging by comments on golf forums about Johnny Miller’s golf commentary style, he’s either liked or loathed. There’s rarely any middle ground although I have to say I’m OK with Johnny but much prefer Gary McCord.

Farrell Evans makes the observation that Johnny Miller has been one of Hank Haney’s most vocal critics and Brad Redding responds.

“Johnny Miller is an idiot. If I were Hank, and thank God he has more class than I do, I would go over and punch him in the face. It's a ridiculous, dumb statement for him to say that Tiger needs to go find his 2000-era golf swing. I guess that means when he went downhill after injuries, he should have went back and found his U.S. Open-winning swing. Besides when was the last time Miller coached a guy to a U.S. Open win or had a guy of Tiger's caliber come to him for help. I call him the Howard Stern of golf announcers.”

And Brad has a point. Tiger’s recent neck ailment the latest indication that his body isn’t like it was in the early 2000s.
Ten years is a long time in an athlete’s life and as we golfers well know, but average Joe Doe doesn’t, it can be hard on the body

When asked, “Well, why did they split?”

Brad replied, “I think Hank had gotten a little tired. There has been a full-out assault on him. Every armchair golf-swing coach had a comment as to why Tiger's swing wasn't good. He was tired of the pounding. When he came to our PGA section to speak in February he already seemed weary from the constant harassing by the press about Tiger. It just got old.”

Brad also makes some very interesting comments when comparing Tiger’s swing when he was with Butch Harmon, to the time he worked with Hank Haney.

This again from Brad, “When Johnny Miller said that Hank's swing involved too much wrist action I wanted to scream into the TV and say, "Are you stupid?" With Butch's swing, Tiger needed more hand action than through Hank's method, which is about more body and forearm rotation. This is the way Hank put it: "Why would you strive to re-route the golf club when you can strive for perfect symmetry."