Comments on: Woot! Tiger Wants to Ban Belly Putters Too!

By: greg

greg — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:19:27 +0000

I sorta want to laugh at Tiger Woods outlawing anything with his personal life. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!!!!

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:21:41 +0000

I personally think that anchoring the club should be against the rules. Putting is a critical part of the game that decides winners and I believe that the most talented folders should win. In fact I would love to see a professional rule that all players competing should be playing blades. If you want to see the purest ball strikers of the game win. There is not tooany guys on tour that hit blades anymore but we all know the best ball strikers hit them… And win…

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:29:54 +0000

You moron, just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it should be. If we passed a law that every man named Kevin had to jump off a bridge, would you abide by it?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:40:58 +0000

I kinda see both side of this argument. The issue is this: If you’re going to ban something, do it BEFORE it comes out and becomes prevalent, not after. YOU CANNOT BAN IT AFTER IT HAS BEEN LEGAL FOR SO LONG.

The USGA and Royal Ancient need to have forethought about these things. It’s their fault that it has gotten to this point.

By: Nev

Nev — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:15:22 +0000

The bulk of courses we now use are made for equipment that does not produce flight of more than 250 metres.
The best games in the world are those where the rules stay largely unchanged.
Golf is one that should follow suit.

By: MW

MW — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:09 +0000

Keep golf as it was intended? You mean we should all be whacking a feathery around with a sapling? I bet all you people still drive manual transmission cars with no power steering, iron your clothes with hot rocks, toast your bread over an open flame, and communicate via telegraph.

By: Nev

Nev — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:32:46 +0000

The worse point in this is that we have another example of exploitation of the rules.
The people who devised a game had good intentions and set good rules.
The game is being ruined by greed of commercial innovations.
Look at tennis. Six hour grand slam finals. Brute force games with racquets made with war like power.

Stop the rot and keep golf as it was intended.
No long putters, proper balls, and sand bunkers with foot holes.

Fore!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:31:50 +0000

I don’t remember hearing Tiger complain about this publicly in the past in interviews or has he? If not why start now?

By: MW

MW — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:56:48 +0000

I am not a bad putter at all. In fact I am a very good putter. I do own a belly putter among the dozen or so putters I own, but purely out of curiosity. Unless your belly is absolutely flat, and the belly putter is anchored on a swivel, then there will be movement and play in the stroke. Yes, it may be less than holding the putter conventionally, but it does not eliminate the variable completely. I stand by my conviction, if you take a belly putter out to a green and hit putts of varying lengths with it, you will see that it just as difficult (if not more difficult, which it was for me) than putting conventionally, if nothing else just because of the different technique involved. If you put a longer shaft into your driver, you can pick up distance, but you also bring other variables in to play. If you have used a belly putter, and you think that it is really easier than putting conventionally, then why isn’t it in your bag? But let’s face it, if you are against belly putters, nothing I say will change that.

By: Longy

Longy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:44 +0000

MW
I’m starting to think that you’re just a bad putter full stop.