Who's the better commentator: Johnny Miller or Nick Faldo?
On Friday, The Golf Channel invited Johnny Miller into the booth with Nick Faldo and Kelly Tilghman. As soon as Johnny sat down, the fireworks started and the two men started playfully needling each other with insults. TGC has a few of them, but it was actually a lot more. Afterwards, Johnny said it was a lot of fun and wondered how great it would be to see the two paired together in the booth. Of course, Johnny said it in a way that seemed to suggest that he was God's gift to golf.
In a poll of PGA players, most said they preferred Faldo over Miller, no doubt because Miller has been pretty frank in his criticisms of certain players over the years.
So who really is the better announcer--Johnny or Faldo?
43 Comments:
Miller, by far. I don't know anything about their off-camera personalities, but in the booth Miller has the ability to speak well, speak clearly and frankly, and connect to a golf-playing audience. He also has done his homework, giving accurate putt-reads, angles into the greens, various strategic insights. I believe it was Miller who, upon seeing O'Hair pull 9-iron on 17, said immediately that it was too much club.
Faldo!!! Johnny Miller is full of hot air... so annoying. He does not offer anything for the viewer... he ends each of his sentences with a question... he is negative... he is obnoxious. I dread golf when it is on NBC.
Miller. The players' opinion of which announcer they like better is too-obviously self-serving. "Who do you like better, the guy who will tell the public that you choked, on national TV, or, um, the other guy?
What a surprise that most said, "Other guy."
Miller sucks!
I think golf TV watchers should mount a campaign to insure that NBC is not able to bid on network coverage of major golf tournaments.
Faldo is pointedly polite, even though he obviously can quickly analyze any golfer's swing and technique... he refrains from bad mouthing anybody.
Miller is just an over-the-hill PGA tour pro, smug, smarmy, and has nothing to offer in terms of analysis.
I repeat, he SUCKS!
Miller gets my vote, primarily because he has more experience. But I think Faldo's got a lot of promise and is already both entertaining and interesting to listen to.
OTOH, is there a worse play-by-play announcer than The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman? Not only is she out of her league, but she's nnoying as hell.
I agree, Tilgham ain't makin' it. Tough job. I hated Tirico too.
Miller, Faldo, Nantz. All three of these guys are very good. Each has their own style. I don't know if anybody caught Miller and Faldo together on the Golf Channel on Friday, but they went at each other a bit. Now that would be great TV, the two of them together sniping at each other for 3 hours...
My pet peeve, the unctuous introductions to the "hallowed" tournaments and smarmy "journalistic" homages mid-tournament. Please stop the violins and tinkling pianos!!!! I can't take it anymore. It's just a bunch of rich white guys smacking a ball around, for God's sake.
The players views bear no weight here. As a previous poster pointed out, they're far too self serving to be credible. While you may not like his personality, anyone who is knowledgeable about golf has to respect Miller. The guy is a walking encyclopedia of golf knowledge. Faldo's a good guy and has a low key sense of humor but he seems to pull too many punches instead of laying it out there.
Both are good but my nod goes to Miller.
Final note to the anon who said Miller was "over the hill" and has "nothing to offer". Sorry, jackass, anyone with that much golf knowledge, 25 Tour victories and two major championships knows what he's talking about (unlike you). Come back when you've managed to break 95 before you grace us with your ignorant crap.
Faldo all day! Miller is terrible and at times unlistenable. I will say Miller is knowledgeable but Faldo seems to bring more to the table.
In addition I don't mind Kelly so much. I have heard a lot of negatives about her but I find her kind of refreshing.
They're both good, different, but good analysts. If they have to have a female in the booth, then Dottie Pepper gets my vote. Kelly should cover the LPGA or report from the studio.
I like Faldo over Miller for listening too. That comment about the small rock in the sand was pure fluff and needle work. Too easy to say that 9-iron was too much if you looked the whole day everyone was pulling PW.
BTW, Tilgham is easy on the eyes.
That blonde they have now has been rode hard and put away wet. Those lips need to be lipo'ed.
Faldo, 100%, Faldo.
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Miller is more entertaining, insightful, and honest. Faldo is good when he works for the Golf Channel, but way too tame when on CBS. Sadly, he's been infected by CBS' Masters' pretension where they mistakenly think their commentating is as important as the golf their commenting on. How wrong they are.
Faldo! Johnny Miller is the worst commentator is golf and perhaps all of sports. I hate it when golf is on NBC. I usually turn the volume down. The guy is terrible.
I like Faldo, but I have to go with Johnny. Not only does the guy know what he's talking about, he's real.
I feel like Johnny is saying what he really thinks instead of running everything through a filter first. It's refreshing.
Obviously, Miller has taken a lot of heat for things he's said. He's got guts. Plus, you gotta like the first guy to use some of the most dreaded golf and sports language such as "choke."
Miller. Nobody can evaluate a swing as it happens like Miller. Faldo's better than I thought he'd be, but Millers the man.
nobody has ever done it as well as johnny! however, i think it is pretty neat that faldo is already being compared to johnny after such a short time.
as one who looks forward to nbc golf telecasts and less to the other networks - i think it is great that someone as knowledgable and entertaining as faldo is now on cbs - we now have much better golf entertainment on two of the three networks - c'on abc - wake up!
also the golf channel's move to put these two titan's together on their broadcast is pure genius- something to look forward to in the early rounds of a tourney - i hope they continue to be as innovative...
what's wrong with kelly? she is smart, has a lot of game, understands the game inside out and is easy to look at - what more could you ask for?
I heard that a tv special was going to air in the near future, has anyone heard about this? what day is it?
any one hear about a tv special about Johnny Miller? when is it?
has anyone heard about a Johnny miller tv special? when is it?
Without hesitation I'd pick Faldo. Miller is the most annoying analyst of any "sport". Sadly, I'd rather have the guys from ESPN's poker coverage than Miller. Miller has what I like to call "diarreha of the mouth". He loves to babble on and on about meaningless pooh. Thankfully we only have to bear him for nine events. Supposedly he's partly responsible for NBC stealing the Open coverage away from ABC years ago. Go figure.
Anybody but Miller, His tone is just SO ARROGANT.
Miller claims that he is the ownly truthful announcer, but he is insulting and implies that the golfers are stupid because they don't shoot perfect shots and score 54s. Picture Miller covering any other sport, he would insult pitchers because they threw a ball or a hockey player for missing the net.
Players are not robots, that is why live sports are fun/interesting
Miller gets my vote. His technical analysis of the game and the strategic implications for what the players are facing gives the TV coverage great depth and perspective.
miller sucks and it is terrible that we all have to listen to him during such a fantastic tournament! The us open rocks but the announcers ruin it. I am so sick of hearing about what JM did back in the 70's. NBC golf is inferior to CBS!
A nine-year-old could do what Johnny Miller does. If the ball ends up to the left of the hole, Miller reports, "He hit that too far to the left." If the ball ends up to the right . . . you get the idea.
Of course, if it goes in, he acts like that is what you're supposed to do.
Just terrible to hear.
When I read comments that state Miller is "obnoxious" or that he "sucks" is obviously too easily offended. I think that both are great. I feel that Miller appeals to a broader market due to the additional entertainment he provides by making certain calls about the tour players. Nonetheless, he is capable of making off handed comments that even he probably wishes he could retract. I have to admit that I am more partial towards Miller, especially when I read comments made by Jack Nicklaus (the Great!) stating that Johnny is the best family man he has ever met on tour.
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Miller - Euro are generally pompous. It's time we pay more respect to Americans.
There is a reason Nick Faldo is leading the vote among the players - he's a kiss ass. Did you see him and Johnny in the booth together? That was the only time I saw Faldo abrasive. What a joke. He tried so hard to put Johnny down. What a arrogant punk.
They all suck. Faldo sounds like a hungover mouse who has cheese up his ass. TillMAN!!! She will say just about anything. And Miller is very negative!
I've always enjoyed listening to Miller. On the other hand, it is good to have Faldo's expertise and point of view (although it does get a bit much at times). Kelly Tilghman makes me want to go deaf ... she is absolutely dreadful!
Johnny Miller is far too negative to listen to for very long. I agreee that it is nice to hear someone not pull punched, but he RARELY gives due credit to anyone. Faldo is very funny and brings an international side to the broadcasts. I agree with the earlier post that I dread hearing Miller and his arrogant tone. BTW I would rather hear ANYONE than that idiot who commentates along with Miller in the NBC booth. He is a moron!!!
I have to mute the TV when I watch golf on NBC. Actually, I don't like Nantz either, so I mute the TV for everyone except Faldo. Nantz and Miller personify the kind of smug, rich, OLD, white, know-it-all attitude that takes the fun out of golf. Faldo seems to be more realistic--in that he attributes most "bad" shots to the sheer difficulty of the game, whereas Miller is immediately negative of the players themselves as if his 63 at Oakmont gives him the status of the God of Golf.
Mr. Miller needs to remind folks that while Sam Snead was a fantastic player, he didn't have anyone to play against in 1945 - remember World War II, Mr. Miller?
What disqualified Sam from going to Europe or the Pacific Theater?
At any rate, I'd much rather listen to Nick Faldo as a commentator. Any has-been golfer can use the air waves to bad-mouth anyone, without having to face THEM or anyone with a good enough memory of our countries history and world events. Anonymous
Nick Faldo is. As for Johnny Miller, it gets pathetic all he can talk about is how good Tiger Woods is. Tiger hits a ball and he describes how well placed it was and how far he hit it then Phil hits the ball, Johnny Miller goes into his rants of "What is he doing that ball is going left, I just don't understand" then the ball lands so near Tiger's ball that you could throw a blanket over both balls. I do not know about you but I am sick of his "Tiger is the best, Tiger is the greatest, Tiger, Tiger Tiger, give me a break........
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Miller sucks, I hated Faldo as a player but he is a great announcer, Miller is always commenting on whether a putt is hard or easy. It will be a 20 foot putt and he will still say it's an easy putt, If it is so easy why aren't you still out there you big dip. Miller was a flash in the pan, he acts like he was as good as Nicklaus, at least Faldo knows his place. It's called humility Johnny, I just think he is to stupid or arrogant to know he needs some. Kelly is hot, and as dumb as she sometimes is, she is still 10 times better than Miller. Best combo is Zinger and Faldo with Gary McCord for color, hands down. Chris DiMarco is good also on his new radio show, he probably has a future in broad casting.
I will never watch nbc golf again. If I do, I will mute BIG MOUTH MILLER. He thinks he is the golf god of television. I much prefer the country boy approach of Paul Azinger and the blending of him with Faldo. I also liked Curtis Strange. Miller tries to direct the entire show and never allows the other announcers any airtime. He is despicable, self aggrandizing, and wrong 9 out of 10 times he says something. For instance today, he said Mike Weir's shot out of the water would not go anywhere. Roger Maltbie said it would, and Weir immediately hit it long distance over the green. MILLER IS SELDOM right and makes his swing analysis up as he goes. Half of what he says about the swing makes no sense. He says Scott Verplank stays on his right side. He is wrong and Verplank has won millions of dollars playing with his patented swing. Miller was a splash in the pants golfer with only about 3 good years. He has not experience that warrants his AUTHORITARIAN analysis of EVERYTHING!!!!! He really sucks and is steadily getting worse. Bring AZINGER or STRANGE TO nbc and get rid of motormouth. KOCH, PEPPER, MURPHY, ROLFING AND OTHERS MUST REALLY DETEST THE WAY THIS GUY NEVER LETS THEM SAY ANYTHING.
Johnny Miller is by far the worst golf announcer, and just down right annoying. Some of comments are so stupid you almost feel sorry for him. He is pathetic! Zinger is great and needs more air time. Kelly is so bad she is not even worth a comment.
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Johnny Miller is the biggest blow hard piece of S$%t. He is always and all ways tellin' you What an authority he is!! How come he is not on the Senior Tour...because he is alllll mouth and no delivery!! Simply a Blowhard piece of Sh#$
Nick Faldo by far a much better golfer and johnny thinks he is so good because he lucily won a major and he thinks he knows everything and he thinks he is goda gift to golf. also i think it is funny how he can say anything about tiger and how right now phil is better than tiger when tiger has already won a few times this year and while i was just watching the open phil made a nine from 40 yds. so i fucking hate him and nick is a much better comm.. everyting
Johnny Miller is the worst person ever to live.
He is unbias and unsportsmen like and doesn't even come close to being a normal, decent, kind and intelligent person.
No one wants to listen to his nose up Tiger's ass any more.
Someone needs to shut him up.
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