Sea Island Life Magazine Fall/Winter 2014 | Page 46

Jon Kent (above), Sea Island’s director of outdoor pursuits, helped bring the Seminole Cup to
Broadfield, A Sea Island Sporting Club and Lodge (below).

Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC).
“I was introduced to sporting clays when I was
12,” Miles says. “It was something that my dad
and I could do together, and I fell in love.”
Growing up in Arizona, Miles’ top sporting
interests were basketball and golf. But those
dreams began to fall apart after breaking his
elbow at 15. Even after three years of rehab,
he couldn’t get his golf swing back. His father
urged him to concentrate on sporting clays.
“After a while, I started working with a
coach—Steve Schultz—and that was really a
turning point for me,” Miles says.
Today, he captains Team USA FITASC.
He’s sponsored by the big names of the
shooting industry and uses a beautifully
embellished Krieghoff 12-gauge, over-andunder K-80 Pro Sporter. In 2014, he won an
international competition in Dubai, earning
$140,000 in winnings—an historic haul for
sporting clays.
“Sporting clays is still a relatively new sport
in America, and so the purses are still rather
small compared with other types of sports tournaments,” Miles says. “But that’s changing.”

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