Johnny Miller Comment 2
Veteran Don Dice of Cibolo, Texas, also writes in response to the Johnny Miller comment in March comparing the tour pro's travel, and time away from family, with that of the military.
In the March 2008 issue, I take some offense to Johnny Miller's comments about ?the hard part was leaving his family to go play golf.? He mentions the troops going to Iraq. The big difference he failed to mention is, if he misses a few putts he doesn't get paid. If the troops aren't paying attention, they come home in a bag. The gallery may be a distraction, but at least they aren't shooting at you. And by the way, the pay isn't quite the same.When I left my family going to Korea in '53 and Viet Nam in '65, those were sad moments in our lives, but Thank God he got us though it.
Poster andybrown and reader John Gregory Vincent have also commented.
--Bob Carney
02.22.08
Johnny Miller comparing going away to a golf tournament to going to Iraq to fight our enemies!!!!
Unbelievable! You guys have to get into the real world.
Was Johnny ever in the service? Even in peace time you only get 30 days leave a year. Meaning that the rest of the time you could be anywhere in the world. Now that's tough.
Semper fi,
Ted Andrewlevich
Sunbury, PA
Is there no end to people being offended over nothing? Do you go out and search for things that offend you? All he said was leaving his family was hard, just like people in the military. He didn't compare storming a building to short-side bunker shot.
Leaving family = hard. It's not really that difficult.
Johnny Miller is the Golf king of idiot comments or lies. On page 224(hardcover) of his book 'I call the shots' he wrote-
?I also won the San Francisco City Championship, the biggest local amateur tournament there was.?
Check it out yourself.
http://www.sfcitychampionship.com/champions.html
Why does Golf Digest print the word of a liar? Didn't George O'Leary get fired from Notre Dame for padding his resume?