Our Favorite Johnny Millerisms

A glossary of NBC analyst Johnny Miller's on-air pet phrases

June 2013
Webb Simpson

'Chunk and run'

Background: When a player has a bad lie, but plenty of green to work with, Miller characterizes the shot as a 'chunk-and-run' approximately 97 percent of the time. As is the case with many of these terms, Miller also likes to get confirmation from on-course analyst Roger Maltbie.
How he uses it in a sentence: "This is just a chunk-and-run, right, Rog?"
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