Allen Miller (golfer)

Last updated

Allen Miller
Personal information
Full nameAllen Lane Miller III
Born (1948-08-10) August 10, 1948 (age 76)
San Diego, California
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Spouse Cindy Miller
Career
Turned professional1971
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T15: 1975
PGA Championship T39: 1984
U.S. Open CUT: 1974
The Open Championship DNP

Allen Lane Miller III (born August 10, 1948) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and 1980s.

Contents

Miller was born in San Diego, California. He had a distinguished amateur career. He attended the University of Georgia, and was a member of the golf team. Miller was the #2 ranked amateur in America in 1969 and 1970 by Golf Digest ; he was a member of the 1969 and 1971 Walker Cup teams, and the 1970 Eisenhower Trophy team. [1] He won the 1970 Canadian Amateur Championship. [2]

Miller turned professional in 1971. He played on the PGA Tour for 15 years and had 18 top-10 finishes. He won the 1974 Tallahassee Open by one stroke over Joe Inman, Eddie Pearce and Dan Sikes with a 14-under-par 274. The event was played during the same week as the Tournament of Champions, where most of the Tours elite players played. [3] His best finish in a major was T-15 at The Masters in 1975. [4]

Since retiring from the Tour in 1986, Miller has earned a living primarily as a teaching professional. He also played in a limited number of Senior PGA Tour events; his best finish on this circuit is a T-45 at the 1998 First of America Classic. Miller and his wife Cindy, who is also a golf teaching professional and a former LPGA Tour player, live in western New York. They teach at Airport Driving Range and Paddock Chevrolet Golf Dome in Buffalo. [5]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (1)

PGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
1Apr 28, 1974 Tallahassee Open −14 (65-69-67-73=274)1 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Joe Inman, Flag of the United States.svg Eddie Pearce,
Flag of the United States.svg Dan Sikes

Results in major championships

Tournament19691970197119721973197419751976197719781979
Masters Tournament CUTCUTT42T15CUT
U.S. Open CUT
PGA Championship T6477
Tournament19801981198219831984
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
PGA Championship CUTT82T39

Note: Miller never played in The Open Championship

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Kite</span> American professional golfer

Thomas Oliver Kite Jr. is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He won the U.S. Open in 1992 and spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1989 and 1994.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Charles (golfer)</span> New Zealand professional golfer

Sir Robert James Charles is a New Zealand professional golfer who won the 1963 Open Championship, the first left-handed player to win a major championship. He won the 1954 New Zealand Open as an 18-year-old amateur and made the cut in the same event in 2007, at the age of 71. His achievements over that period, in which he won 80 tournaments, rank him as one of the most successful New Zealand golfers of all time. He is, along with Michael Campbell, one of only two New Zealanders to win a men's major golf championship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Crenshaw</span> American professional golfer

Ben Daniel Crenshaw is a retired American professional golfer who has won 19 events on the PGA Tour, including two major championships: the Masters Tournament in 1984 and 1995. He is nicknamed Gentle Ben.

Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins Jr. is an American professional golfer. He won 21 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1977 PGA Championship. He ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 86 weeks from the ranking's debut in 1986 to 1988.

Peter Arthur Oosterhuis was an English professional golfer and broadcaster. He played on the European circuit from 1969 to 1974, winning 10 tournaments and taking the Harry Vardon Trophy for heading the Order of Merit for four consecutive seasons from 1971 to 1974. From 1975 he played on the PGA Tour, winning the Canadian Open in 1981. Oosterhuis was twice runner-up in the Open Championship, in 1974 and 1982. Later he became a golf analyst on TV, initially in Europe and then in the United States. In 2015, he announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathaniel Crosby</span> American golfer

Nathaniel Patrick Crosby is an American golfer. He won the 1981 U.S. Amateur and played on the winning 1982 Eisenhower Trophy and 1983 Walker Cup teams. He turned professional but had little success and was later reinstated as an amateur. He is the seventh child and sixth son of Bing Crosby.

Gary D. Koch is an American professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer, who formerly played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.

Deane R. Beman is an American professional golfer, golf administrator. He was the second commissioner of the PGA Tour, serving from 1974 to 1994.

David Allen Barr is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Canadian Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

Ronald John Cerrudo was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and later worked as a club teaching professional.

Victor Regalado is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour.

John Fought III is an American golf course architect and professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.

Jeffrey Michael Quinney is an American professional golfer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gary Cowan</span> Canadian golfer

Gary Cowan is a Canadian golfer who has achieved outstanding results at the highest class in amateur competition.

Marvin M. "Vinny" Giles III is an American amateur golfer. He is best known for winning both the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur.

Guy Bertram Wolstenholme was an English professional golfer. He had a successful career both as an amateur and then as a professional.

Peter Michael Paul Townsend is an English professional golfer. After a very successful amateur career he turned professional in 1966. He had a number of wins in the early part of his professional career including the Piccadilly PGA Close Championship in 1968. He represented Great Britain twice in the Ryder Cup, in 1969 and 1971.

Douglas Norman Sewell was an English professional golfer. Before turning professional he had a successful amateur career, playing in the Walker Cup in 1957 and 1959.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Collin Morikawa</span> American professional golfer (born 1997)

Collin Morikawa is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He began his PGA Tour career with 22 consecutive made cuts, second only to Tiger Woods' 25-cut streak. Morikawa has six PGA Tour wins – including two major championships, the 2020 PGA Championship and the 2021 Open Championship, winning both in his debut. In May 2018, Morikawa spent three weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He also became the first American to win the Race to Dubai on the European Tour.

References

  1. ↑ "Biographical information from Allen Miller's website" . Retrieved December 4, 2007.
  2. ↑ Barclay, James A. (1992). Golf in Canada: A History. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN   978-0-7710-1080-4.
  3. ↑ "Today in Golf History: April 28". Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved December 4, 2007.
  4. ↑ "Golf Major Championships". Archived from the original on November 10, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Allen Miller Golf". Allen Miller Golf. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.