{"id":25701,"date":"2019-06-19T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-golf-clubs-erroll-miller-reflects-on-fathers-day-weekend-with-family-at-the-u-s-open-at-pebble-beach\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T00:56:00","slug":"breckenridge-golf-clubs-erroll-miller-reflects-on-fathers-day-weekend-with-family-at-the-u-s-open-at-pebble-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/breckenridge-golf-clubs-erroll-miller-reflects-on-fathers-day-weekend-with-family-at-the-u-s-open-at-pebble-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge Golf Club\u2019s Erroll Miller reflects on Father\u2019s Day weekend with family at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Open sights as seen from the vantage point of Breckenridge Golf Club pro Erroll Miller at this past weekend’s U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Course on the California coast.<\/strong>
Erroll Miller \/ Special to The Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Late this winter, Sean Miller, son of Breckenridge Golf Club PGA pro Erroll Miller, asked his dad if he\u2019d like to take a family trip to Pebble Beach Golf Course on California\u2019s coast to watch the 2019 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

What a \u201cDad\u2019s Day weekend\u201d the idea turned out to be, the elder Miller said.<\/p>\n

Erroll Miller had been to the hallowed West Coast golfing ground before, back in the \u201980s when he played a couple of rounds at Pebble himself. Returning to Pebble Beach with Sean; his wife, Sue; and Sean\u2019s girlfriend, Ashley, was a truly special memory in Erroll\u2019s life, as the foursome got the chance to watch Sean\u2019s favorite player, Tiger Woods, and more of the world\u2019s best golfers at one of the world\u2019s most famous courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a real Tiger fanatic,\u201d Erroll said about his son, who is the PGA club pro at the Omni Interlocken in Broomfield. \u201cHe just got addicted to golf, and he grew up in the era of Tiger. Tiger is his guy, where Jack Nicklaus is my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo (Sean) made the statement almost a year ago,\u201d Erroll added, \u201cthat if Tiger ever won another major, he\u2019d propose to his girlfriend. So when the Master\u2019s comes around, everybody is kidding him, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you propose?\u2019 So the proposal hasn\u2019t happened, but his love for Tiger hasn\u2019t diminished, and his girlfriend loves Tiger, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Miller foursome got the chance to watch Woods during a weekend when Woods\u2019 final score of -2 put him in a tie for 21st.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe commands the gallery,\u201d Erroll said about watching Woods. \u201cHis gallery is, I would guess, three to four times the other players\u2019. Particularly those first couple of days, you never know if he is going to make the cut or not. People want to see him on Thursdays and Fridays. He\u2019s a vacuum to the spectators that are out there. And so, if you are going to see Tiger, you\u2019ve got to get a couple of holes ahead and see him come through. Then maybe jump a couple of holes ahead again. Because if you are trying to follow him, it\u2019s just chaotic.\u201d<\/p>\n

All that said, Erroll described how he approached taking in the tournament, a plan that included seeing a bit of action from as many of the 18 holes as possible over the three-day stretch while also hunkering down from a specific vantage point.<\/p>\n

The eventual spot Erroll settled on was along the rope on the par-3 fifth hole, a location that put his family just 30-feet away from many of the world\u2019s best golfers, including eventual winner Gary Woodland, of Topeka, Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us to watch not only their putts, but their short-pitch shots or bunker shots \u2014 a couple bunker shots holed out, we saw some flubbed shots \u2014 when you are that close, you can actually see their facial expressions, hear them cussing,\u201d Erroll said.<\/p>\n

Erroll, who hadn\u2019t attended a PGA Tour event in a few years, was impressed with the technological advances for spectators. He described how he and his family used ear buds to listen for free to satellite coverage of the action elsewhere on the course. And then there were the drones flying above the course.<\/p>\n

As for the course itself, Erroll said it\u2019s the type where most people \u201ccan remember every hole.\u201d Similar to Breckenridge Golf Club\u2019s relatively small greens, Erroll commented on Pebble Beach\u2019s tiny greens. He said they featured a Scottish look because of the tall grass that towered out and around hazards, such as nearby bunkers.<\/p>\n

As for what it\u2019s like to play Pebble, Erroll said there is indeed a special energy at the country\u2019s most famous West Coast course.<\/p>\n

\u201cPebble definetely has an aura to it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I would presume an intimidation factor to it. You have some of those holes right along the ocean, and you know you don\u2019t want to put it in the ocean. But yet, if you try to play the soft side of the course, so to speak, where there is no hazard, you are just going to have a really difficult shot into the green. So it requires an A-game, without a doubt. The beauty of it is when you are playing some of the holes, you see almost the entire layout. \u2026 You see so much coastline. You see the holes in the future \u2026 seeing how that coastline will unfold for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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