Comments on: Should NBC Sports fire George O’Leary Johnny Miller? http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2006/11/should-nbc-sports-fire-george-oleary-johnny-miller/ News and commentary on the world of sports. Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:33:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: James Joyner http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2006/11/should-nbc-sports-fire-george-oleary-johnny-miller/comment-page-1/#comment-17830 James Joyner Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:12:53 +0000 http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2006/11/should-nbc-sports-fire-george-oleary-johnny-miller/#comment-17830 Strange. Johnny Miller won the Junior Amateur championship in 1964 at San Fran’s Olympic Club. But he’s listed as one of several guys who went on to become big-time pros who competed but failed to win the City Championship.

The City Championship is as diverse as San Francisco itself. Hackers hitting the ball sideways play alongside more accomplished golfers who bomb it down the middle. There are flights for all abilities, but the Championship Flight is the one that grabs the headlines. It is there that many of the great ones cut their teeth. Ken Venturi, Johnny Miller, George Archer and Bob Rosburg, to name a few, all started their competitive careers trying to win the City Championship. Even Tom Watson, while a young psychology major at Stanford took a crack at it. But only Venturi and Archer among them was successful.

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