USGA considers new rule outlawing long putters
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February 27, 2013, Wednesday
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PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said the tour was against the proposed rule that would ban the anchored stroke primarily used for long putters and belly putters.
There is no empirical evidence that an anchored stroke is easier, so the PGA Tour asks why ban it?
Such putters have been used for decades, so why is the debate happening now?
It was Keegan Bradley's win at the PGA Championship that prompted serious talk about the future of anchored strokes. Bradley now is lumped in with three of the last five major champions using a belly putter, but he was the catalyst.
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said the conversations between golf's administrators and the governing bodies about the future of the long putters began last year at the Masters.
That was before Webb Simpson won the US Open and Ernie Els won the British Open, which ramped up the attention.
For now, the tour has not said it will go against the USGA. It has only said it disagrees with the USGA.
The USGA and R&A say it is not about equipment, rather a new rule that attempts to define the golf stroke as the club swinging freely.
There is no empirical evidence that an anchored stroke is easier, so the PGA Tour asks why ban it?
Such putters have been used for decades, so why is the debate happening now?
It was Keegan Bradley's win at the PGA Championship that prompted serious talk about the future of anchored strokes. Bradley now is lumped in with three of the last five major champions using a belly putter, but he was the catalyst.
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said the conversations between golf's administrators and the governing bodies about the future of the long putters began last year at the Masters.
That was before Webb Simpson won the US Open and Ernie Els won the British Open, which ramped up the attention.
For now, the tour has not said it will go against the USGA. It has only said it disagrees with the USGA.
The USGA and R&A say it is not about equipment, rather a new rule that attempts to define the golf stroke as the club swinging freely.
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