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4C SPORTS/IElie Cliarlom ^ofit Thursday, June 14, 2007 fT’S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME How to get out of the frying pan ByTJ.TOM.4SI Unranwl Pr«!S Syndicate The so-called “fried e^" Ue to the (burled inaciiiter of snd. as showTi at right) b chaUenging be cause it involves an ag- jcressiw sxm, thafs so fidl of force It can go lay- wire at i»tot This Is e^)ec]alb' Irae wheti you’re in a deep bunker and ym Iwe to carry a tail Jl}x as I'm having mdo in the ftootos below. I'm playing this shot from an op«i stanre. -Mytoe iltw. re^^n^d hy thearrowdcse^ to myfeel. is pointing well teftrf the tari®t line, which lies along the second arrow. After I atm m.vdub&ceat the tar^t, my goal on the badtswing is to swing my left arm along my toe line. Sinro the arms swing ai the tody line, my dutoead feiih will be across the beli, producinga«it-ac3V3SS swmg that vvUl can'p the bah out d’ Itscraier if I do one very Impor tant thing: I must keep my right forearm :^int- ed toward the ky ah the way through the swing. This keeps ray dubfece from turning over and allws me to start the ball at the mr- Notice dial my club is swinging way to the left of whero it would Kg' a normal sh^. If ray dubface were square to the {lath of the I«ng aiTow m the left, (be toll shK« too fer to the left of my tar^, hit by keeping my fcre- anus from relating, rtiechiWac^ ssay-s looking attherargei.li'sthisoombroaikm -adub path that left anda fere that po«m straight that povidesthe height I need to de^the Up of this bunker, Because I’m going to ^ve th»s egg a &Xfi whack. Ifsidliooea^ toturn my forearms over as I wmiJd in a normal. ftiU power ^-ing. Fortimately. hit of th^e to know that swed rotation speUsd^ter, so I’m foetid on keeping my right ^arai from turnitigorer aihcmghtl wmldencmtrage sou to try the next time sour bunker menu in- dudes a fried egg- Defending champ doesn’t care how he won last year’s Open little grin a ftve-o'dock shadewed face cf Gedl | Ogilvyevray time he'siniredured at the first tee of a golf toiima- ment- Ifsa slrapte pleasure he couldn't enjoy 12 menths ago. ■'ifs quite nice toto inlrcdured as the U.S. Open Champion ewry OGILVY week." he said. “That doesn't get okl. HcqxftjUy that doesn’t stop after this week." (hsUvy has plenty to Knile atout Br the past year, even thmigh he's asked every week to analvze whether he won the Open at Vftnged Fbot or if PhU Mlrkelscn kxst it by raakinga double-to^y on the hole. The semantics don't matter toC^vy ’Hiwe's a touch of peode who think of last year and think atout PhU," Ojdl'y said. ’And there’s tantebly a few people tha I thtok about rae.That’sjust the way if turned rait." .'^«n Aifiny. i la AVa-s Sttiice Gol^ Insider Speaking his mind Golfer-tumed- aimoiincer Miller returns to scene of Ills biggest win By CRAIG IJOLCH Ocr Newsf^prvics West Palm Beach. Fte. E vety tirap the I'.S, re turns to Oakmom, the talk turns to Johmiy MiUer's final-round G3 that won the 1973 tounuunent and Is resided as Ito roiintl In championship his tory Bui there's not as much discus sion on that subject for tois week's aatioiiai charapi w^ip. Two gen- eratkms remove frwn that magi cal day mo« the taOcatout Miller rev\)iv‘es around what he has to say atout ttoay’s stare and how he my$ It. Dispite rarely, tarir^ng cut his dubs for putoc dispkK the Hall d’ Famer and TV anal.vst has a iMmip.'r anpQci on the game today than he did when he was wiimtog toumameiits in biinchas with one of the smccthess swings ev^r seen. Ntocdy in golf is as conirover- .sial. as loath^. or as Iov«d — de pending upon of view — than Miller "tjusi do what I do." MUier said. "I don't try tu make aiything hap pen. I jus! roll It the way I see it. I was always sort of tou^ cei calls atout my own same. I’d he the guy to tell you 1 was choking. I'd be the first guy to lei y’ou I’m the best In the work!. if I was. T roatoa lot of mistakes (as an announcer), too. i wah 1 didn't. But it is what it is. It's just Johnny at wok. That's aO! can tell >tju.“ Return to (hkmom .lohnny will be working extra hard tha week, because he often has said the ui Oren — which re- tm-Ds to the western Pennsylvania cour^ for s record eighth tirae— Is his fav'ori^ tournament and thwe is no clear rvmner-up.The Johnny you'd hear during four presKire-packed rtmnds will no dcuto make players mad. fans laugh ato the casual observer cringe. Maybe aH of the atovie. at the arnie tirae. .Millercan make Sirouii Cowell seem warm and Rizzy: and every- or» isa iX'tential eared, fi-om Tii^r ¥ttods to journeyman Craig Parry, whose utwithodox swing, M dler mre rwnarted. ’’ make Ben Ho^ puke,” At last jear’s U.S. C^?n at Foot. Miller picked apart a coIfepsingPhiJ Mkkeison. whose double-tossy on the final hok co« him a third consecutive majre ctomplmstoip. InMUler'sralnd. Lefty didn’t get it rtsht fran the start. chaisinE to hit a driver off THE GOLF DOCTOR M Wt Golfing lo^nd Johnny Hi highly opnitxtated comn^ Miller returns to Oakmom, the tee. "PhU. you don't hare to run dewn the last stretdi on a white sgallion. you toww.’’ Milkr Mid on the NBC telecast. "Ym ocmld hrap to there and say 'Thanks for the tn^y"’ Miller insists his acerbic cri tique luv nerera personal thing. Case in point wouM to hb un- flUtching pick for this y^r’s Open fevedte. "I beheve Phil is the favorite." MiUer said. "If It were between Tiger and PhiLltake Phil If he can hit the cut sh^. he wjU win the Open. He has pul In more ef fort to know the cc^rse. He has s«?ent an hour on erery streen. He has as much talent asTIger. but is driving the toil much totter. It wouldn't surprise rae if he won by sux shots." C-sno* r>ru«L-inf AiUoM rlUiS OptfnOriS Oilier Ete^ite his candre {or perhaps toreuse erf it). Miller’s stedi &s an analyst nw be dropping. A recent Si»ris Business Journal-'Storis &Jsiiw^ Daily poU ^owed T2 per cent of the respondents preferred CBS S?»rts’ lead amlyst Nick Fklto over Mitor. And in Sports IBustraied’s sixth annual PGA Thur ptover survey thbsprjng. Prepare for three decisions when hitting the links n Ev«y ttoie you play a round of there are three critical decbiais you should rosto: Choke l:WNcht»es The tost way to get off to a gcod start is to pl^’ th# tees ftiat match i^jur strength and wrakness profile. Play a cimrse that’s wo kmgand you turn meet nf your strengths into weaknesses— then aU you’re kft with IS a weatae^ and ireaknws profile. Plus, when you play* from tto wrong tees, yxm sto ymirself up for a floto tf psychological "no signals" that w’ill staply rum ytjur day Choke 2: Whfch type oJ go# There are two klttos of »:df; spectacular tojlf and «Mring golf. You need to decide whidi erne you're pKvtog befine you arrire at the first tee. Spemcular golf is a game of hitting the perfect shto, t^ing a driver off ev-ery tre and goit^ for erery' flag. You don’t keep score, and the bendunark Is sh(^ that include ^nsalional attacks and daring re- covraies. &oring golf is based m m evaluatic^i of your cor- tml golf swing and the cimunstanc^rf pl^v It’sa SCHEDULE M Times EOT us; GOLF A^OGIATION US. Open • Site: Oalimont, l^. ■ Schedule: Thursday- Sundto: • Course: (tekmotit Country Club (72® yards, par 70.) . Purse; TBA 16.8 million in ' 2006^ i ••n'rESPNtiTlujrsday- ' Friditt' iOa jp.-J pm.. 5-7 pm.: Monday if nere^ry, nxgi2 p.m.) and (Ihureday- Ift'idayJ-Q p.m.: Saturday- Sunday 1-7 pra.: McRiday if rtroessary: 2 pro. toconchi- slon). hLVriO.NWTOETOUR Showdown at Soraerby • Site: ByTou. Mtoa • Schedule: Thursday- Sundry • Coimsc: Scwiert^’ Gotf Club (7.{®5 yards, par 72). • Purse: ma». Winners shan-.m.m •T\':NcRe. PGA EIIROPE.4N TOlU/ PGA EimOPEAN CHALLENGE TOUR Salat-Oraer Open • Site: Saint-Omer. France • Schedule: Thursday- Miller raises eyebrow with hs ted comrr^ts during TV telecasts. This week, to Oakmom, where his finaS-round scxe of 63 In 1973 is regarded as ttie Itoest rowid in U.S. Open history. Faklo was recoeilzsi as the play- ere’ faywitp 32 perrent to MiUer's ISpwcent). "All I know 15 cjur viewers lure Johnny“sa}d IffiCsiead golf pro- durer Tommy "And ttot's the moat impoftimt audience form" MiMer doesn't :»em tothered bv the lopsided jxiUs. "PaJdQ is a ^3od frtend of mine, but he Mid when he got on CBS. he would mad^ Johnny Miller sound like Mary Poppins. which I thought was a pretty tlmny oxn- ment." Milter said. 'As. Ikr as the itoO'ers. 1 strt of make them an swer ia the piper, so to speak, a lit tle bit more than mest people. So that's protahly where that is cran- togfrom." .MiUer has even managed to agi tate former plarers. todudlng HsU of f^ersfrom hisera. "I think that Johnny kind of goes overbtwd and I thtok he wiU to the first to adroit that he goes o\«rtx»rd." Ue Trevino said. "I do not know why pe^le iito to kkk soaietody when they are down. 1 was atoaysthe kind d guy that if you are down. I wrail to help ym up 1 Itoe FaMo; I think he has dune a tremendous job. Ido not underhand him, but I like hUn." pmeof positforoAsreupK^essfrorathetce ' (where, rule, all pc^tions are equ^. the idea te to increase your posltk^ladvawage wito erery* :^’lng until you hole out — the ultimate in pc^itlonaladvan- tage. The benchmark to judge sucress here is your socre. Thekeyisdon't mixscormg©>if with spedaeulm- golf. If you’re^ingtogoforev^hing.dMi’t keep Kxre.and if you're keepjngscare.dont go for erery- fhtog. 0)O!Ce3;The^ When you anive at the tee box. take a few moroento' to identify the shape of the bote and what the arohi- tect had in mind. Develop your plan tohind the toll with considran- tioR for your streradh and w-eakitess pcofite. the cir- curasiances (match play to medal tgie-up or two- dcjW’R. etc.), and the riroditiais of play lte. wind, haoids. etc,). Ytor plan should match your profile ptofectly so that you rtoslre peoulssion from your subconsem^ rolraJ to play rach sh« with roniilenoe. TJ. nmmi • Course: AaSaim-OmK: ; Galfaub6.843yards.par71>. • Purse: $S3.225. • Vk'-. None. LPGATWR Next event: Wegmans LPGA. June 21-24. Locust Hill Country Club. Pitlsftrd. N.Y CHAMPIONS “TOUR Next event: arok of America Championshiix June 22-24. Na^awiuc Country Club. Ctoictotl. Mass. NGA HOOTERS TOirR LomaUnda Classic. . Thursday^uro&X Loma Linda Resort. Jetton. Mo. - c.an.adiantoi:r Times Colontet Open. Thursday-Sunday: Ga^ Vate Gotf CiukVKtoria.Brih^ Columbia. ■ mpm WORLD RANKINGS I.Tifw Woods tS.?0 5 Pt^ Mtdielsoo S 03 3.JimFar^ 7.05 4Aci»nScott 7,11 i 5. Erree gis ' 6.82 6 Hanrtk Slsnson 6.14 7.VwSv^ 6.08 QGscKOgiivy 5.70 5.36 10 Reb«tGx«en 514 . IlHHattingleo 5.13 12 SeigpoGarwa 4.95 13.ZiK^J^v^ 4.66 14 ftofySabbatrt 4,65 1§.f.imni#n?»t 4.51 MONEY LEADERS PGA TOUR Woods 2 m fvlKkeisoo 3.Vij»y^ 4 Ztoh Johnson 5, RsfySabtoW 8 Ad»n Scot? 7.C.Hom\\n\ 8 K.J.Ch^ 8 A. 10 John 54,274.091 S4.I20.588 S3,mi93 S2.960.894 82.mi08 S2.«)4,26$ S2.&>1.717 S2.!e3.629 Sg.t^JSQ St.milO LPGATOUR Player Monoy 1.1. CN^ si.m404 2.SRatt8rs8n S1.023.133 3. I^ute Crsawof $6^.974 4 Nicct# Costoit $€68,317 5, B. liTKSkws CKA«®»IONSTOUR PMy« kfoney I.Jj^Haas SiJOO.^8 2 Lof«p>Rcfe#»is Sl.0^.047 Sl.06e.991 JHaloirwo $891,738 S.Teml«e $^.251 ASKTHEPRO Good putters aim for tto hole 0: Nto wanting to to too; 5iv^ on tto first hole and ruin my round, IM my short ircsi shot about 40 fe« away from the bote, fuid at my course, the first hole ss not the place fora three-putf. My partner lold me toju.^ lag it upintoa S-foot circte. and it wraked. ttTwt do y^ou think cJ this for long putts? I'.iJlfmm themi .A: Anyihing that works in putting a OK by me. but long term I dcsiT Uke the “a-foot circle” theccy In my experience. gQ^ putters tiy tohit the bail into the hole, not 3 feet frmn It. I^tjm a long distance, rt^^sy to leare ytmr putt 3 feel of where ym want it to stop And if ypu miss the 3-foot ctode by Uwt much, ytJU're 6 feet from the hote- As &r as the mechanics M ls« put ting pi. there are a rous^e of thto^ to remember. Frirai Icrag rani^. the best way tosst it dose Is to strike the toll solidly by conc^trating on a dtm^e on the of toe toil so your h^d sta>^ still until your ball is well uifoer way 1 think after youN-e figured out the distance and tto breito. if you focus on solid oxttact you might make a few of toelotm ones. (hioe youN'e chosen ymir hne. take a practk» stroke next to your l^ looking at the hde to program your mind ftrthe distarasrf the putt By doing this your eyos register toe dis- taiwe to toe tai^and your Isain calculaieshow much et^t^ is re quired. As Isoftenthecase.if youtevea long uphfli putt, take y^r practlre stroke ferther from the hote than ywir bedl hestoacccaini for the added forte you'11 need beraiuse of theslqpe.lf iiisadow’nhillputt. straid closer to the hole to program hitting the easier. But in all rases, take dead aim fto the 41l-indi clrde rather than the 3-foot circle. Ym'ti to surprised at how many moreJO-fotoers you’ll make. And don't for^ to praclire yvur irc«s a bit more. Then ytni wem't hareth»e-IMooiK’S. I tjass .foasit hiini* qomthfi abcutgod. Lefty will pli^ Ixit ‘won’t be pain-free’ ByST^AHTTim' Cox News Service Oakmont Pa. Underany Mher circum stances. Phil Mkkelson would n't to this week. His teft wrisft. wrapped by a tmy blue elastk brace toat tak^a lap around his thumb, nreds another sdid «?ekof re« More it is deemed back to But this is the US. Ch^cn. and there's noway a scae wrist, even one that requir^l a coili- soneshot and contftam physi cal therapy was ^ing to keep Mickelsdit out of toe field at Mroont Country Club. "I probably to pain- free like 1 had hoped, but I shouM be able to have it be manageable as long as I don't a^ravate it tr hft it in the roi^." MtekelKxi ksW. The untimely injury actual ly ocoirred while hitting |»^c- tice from theOakmwit rou# several weeks ago. it fotx^ Mickebon to withdraw fhxu two tournaments (kfemorteland Staidtoxi Sc. Judejand caused h«n toaker his preparation mitine. He's totito restrict his praciioe just to keep the wrist healthy enou^ toayoipete. Distribtoed by Urdversal Press Syntocale for Cox News Semes. 800) 2S5-B734. ‘For r^ease the week ol Jtms 11. 2007.
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