Why long putters

June Webb Simpson becomes the second player to win a major using a belly putter, capturing the U. Open at The Olympic Club. July Ernie Els wins the British Open using a belly putter, holing a foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole. Runner-up Adam Scott , using a long putter anchored to his sternum, misses a 6-foot putt to tie Els on the final hole. November At age 14, Tianlang Guan wins the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship with a belly putter, earning an invitation to the Masters in , when he will become the youngest-ever competitor in the event's history.

April 14, Using a broom-handle putter, Adam Scott prevailed in a playoff at the Masters to become the fourth player in the last six majors to win while using an anchored stroke. May 21, After a day comment period, the governing bodies announce that Rule b will be enacted on Jan.

July 1, The PGA Tour reverses course and announces that it will adopt Rule b and ban anchoring at its events, beginning on Jan. Odyssey Golf announced plans for a new, longer putter that will conform to the proposed anchoring ban.

Phil Mickelson indicated that he agrees with both sides of a proposed ban on anchoring putters, set to take effect in You say they're all putters but you use them everywhere. Then you stand on the first tee at St. And you shoot The Mad Professor doing his thing. If he starts making all his putts with a great long wand, golf will go to Hell with Kublai Khan.

Few years ago someone, Brett Ogle I think, tried to get the head of a wedge on a long putter shaft. His yips extended to chipping. Full body. A terrible business. But a long wedge was not allowed to cure sand-yips.

But you can swing a putter? Like a pendulum? It cures poor people with the yips? Have you read nothing? What if you're yippy around the green like the Bhogke and the great Oswald Moore Why can't you put a sandwedge head on a long shaft, go into a bunker, put it under your chin and swing it like a pendulum? Each time you take the club back, say waist height, club parallel with the earth, and let it fall back you'd get the same result because you'd have the same power. Because you could repeat the same shot, time after time after time after time Because the doosra, anyway, Murali threw.

Hundred per cent. His stock ball was okay, the offie. But the doosra was flicked out like Derek Jeter slinging a heater to first base. But who could tell if Murali had bent it over 15 degrees? And Murali got to chuck it and took Test wickets. The silver weight arc is heavier than the rest of the putter material, shifting the weight placement to the back perimeter of the putter head for a high moment of inertia, creating even more forgiveness and truer roll.

The AT 91 mallet putter is similar in appearances to the AT 72, but drastically different in performance and feel. With the AT 91, Thomas Golf has achieved the highest level of moment of inertia for a putter by combining our extra-light aluminum body with the heavily weighted bars placed to the far perimeter of the toe and heel. These are the first ever weight bars with flat tops and sides to help improve alignment of the putt. The AT 91 is center-shafted, providing greater stability during the putting stroke.

The AT 71 mallet putter features fixed-position weight ports that create a moment of inertia by reducing club head twisting. A wide alignment channel passes across the putter from the face to the back, giving 3-dimensional visualization of direction.

Splitting the top surface of the putter into two separate elevations ensures the golfer's eyes are directly over the ball. Unintentional contact with the body or clothing is not a breach of the rules. Rule To me, the issue is not anchoring but rather putting is being reduced to a mechanical motion with the player creating a pendulum by fixing the top of the putter with one hand and rocking it with the other.

I used to be a good putter but these days I struggle on the greens. I know some people are as bad with a long putter as a short and you can manipulate the evidence to suit either side's argument but a great big putter sticking out of the bag is an anathema to me.