I use a long putter and I anchor it, I used a shave driver and my drives go about 10 to 15 yds. further, I use a anti-slice golf ball and I rarely slice then I go home very happy after spending 3 1/2 hours doing something I am supposed to enjoy. Oh, I also lowered the basketball rim in my driveway to 8 1/2 feet so I can dunk (just barely).
@@DelusionalVoice I'm 6 ft. and weigh 240 so I had a giant womb constructed and also a XXL swaddle blanky and every night that's where I sleep. I also slip in to an XXL adult diaper so that I don't have to get up in the middle of the night to pee. So it's my world and I live comfortably!
If the long putter is such an advantage, why didn’t every tour player use one? Why aren’t gps and range finders banned? They are far more of an advantage. Reason, big investments and money in my opinion.
I just bought a front facing long putter and I don't see the problem here. It's a legal club but you can use it illegally like any putter can be used illegally. If a player has a mind to cheat, there are umpteen opportunities to do so. How many (amateur) players simply rake away a 2 or 3 foot putt awarding themselves a gimmie? How many players bump the ball in the fairway OR rough because they don't like the lie? THAT's cheating! But using a long putter without anchoring is perfectly legal.
If the stats said that long putters were the way to go, why the hell isn't every player on the tour using them? An unnecessary rule that is continually open to scrutiny and misinterpretation should be rescinded. The overuse of belly putters by young players being taught how to use them from the outset if theur careers caused this problem. Just ban the belly putter, which has to be anchored, and the problem is solved.
You can either read a putt or not. You have touch or not. Now banning a pro from addressing the ball multiple times in the rough and pressing the grass down! Now that would stop cheating!
At 1:18 - Looks as if the putter is anchored in the crease of the arm - specifically between the forearm and the body (i.e. the bicep portion of the arm). Is this compliant?
Bernhard said if I cannot use some sort of anchoring he would quit the game of golf.............i would rather quit than cheat, he obviously does not feel the same.......
Mary Johnson Well said Mary. Statistically no putter, make, head type or length has any proven advantage over any other. My garage has lots of them all promising to revolutionise my game.
Jim, where did you learn your logic? At 1:40 you hit a putt during which you don't anchor your putter. Then you state: "It's pretty amazing people think that Langer did anchor the putter". You do realize that you aren't Langer, right? And you realize that the stroke you took is actually a different event taking place at a different time and space than any of Langer's stroke, right?
Just ban the long putter entirely, so spectators don't have to take your word for it that you're not cheating. If you can't play with the same type of putter that 90% of the other players are using, then get off the course.
Oh, so these golfers that use the long putter have the equivalent of a handicap? Interesting. I don't really care. At least they banned these guys from anchoring the club against their bellies. That accomplished 90% of the goal. I'm sure that ban really got your goat. Moron.
Agreed ,and while were at it lets get back to "wood" woods, whats with these dang "metal" things and mallet putters ! ,bring back just blade putters I don't like the unfairness of it all. And let's not forget the new fangled ball material !!!!
Been playing golf for thirty years and have only ever known about 5 people at club level use these. they hardly needed banning did they. if they were such an easy fix they would have sold millions not hundreds. Driver technology however has allowed some high handicap golfers hit drivers past 250 when back in the day they probably at best would have used a 3 wood.
Lots of touring pros ANCHOR their upper arms tightly to their sides - why is this legal, since it enables them to putt a lot better than if their arms were required to swing freely. What about armlock - that's cheating to the nth degree. I've used a long putter since 1979 (made it myself) and the USGA declared this method 100% legal in 1989, courtesy of the fair-minded David Fey, so I anchored it until the ban in 2016, but as this video illustrates, I can putt just as well holding it a tad off my chest. Tiger, the USGA and R&A can get screwed.
Interesting comments on your part to defend Bernard Langer. I have an email directly from a USGA rules official stating that he is in violation of rule 10.1B. Bernard Langer does anchor his putter !!
