The PGA Tour will implement the
global ban on anchored strokes from 1 January 2016 to “avoid confusion”.
The R&A and the US Golf Association first
unveiled plans last year which supported by the European Tour but not the PGA
Tour.
The PGA has now decided that a single set of rules
on acceptable strokes is “desirable and would avoid confusion”.
Thankfully the PGA have come to their senses and
done what they should have done when it was officially announced, six weeks ago, by the R&A and USGA that long putters would be consigned to the history
books.
Although judging by their comments on why they
agreed to the ban it sounds like their still not too happy about it, saying they
did it to “avoid confusion”, the confusion being that if they decided to reject
the ban we could have a had a situation where long putters were banned one week
but ok to use the next.
Maybe now the PGA can turn their attention to slow
play and start dishing out real punishments for those who take way too long to
over their shots, like say banning them from tournaments like the great Jack
Nicklaus suggested, rather than just making them pay a small fine.
No comments:
Post a Comment