When Johnny Miller first stepped foot on property at Napa’s Silverado Resort to compete in the PGA Tour’s 1968 Kaiser International Open as an amateur, he could sense there was something special about the place.
“I liked the country, the courses, the open fields, the smells,” Miller said. “It felt like home.”
So much so that after turning pro and marrying his wife Linda, they honeymooned at Silverado Resort in one of the condos.
“One thing led to another and we bought a condo the next year on the sixth fairway of the North Course, then built a house in ’74 on the lake (at No. 11),” says Miller, who won the tournament there in 1974 and ’75, and had five of his six kids born in Napa…