Adam Scott will stick with long putter even after the anchoring ban starts
Adam Scott won’t be able to use the anchored putting stroke come Jan. 1, 2016. It’s been banned by the game’s governing bodies.
However, the long putter that Scott has been using for the last five years will remain legal.
Scott has decided, then, that he’s sticking with his original plan: He’s going to keep using the long putter, but stop anchoring it to his body.
“I’ve got as far as I see it two good options. I can un-anchor the long putter — I do that well — or putt with a short one — and I know what I’m up for there because I used it a few rounds this year,” Scott said to PGATour.com on Wednesday ahead of The Barclays in New Jersey.
“I like the long one with the same action I’ve been using. I just have to shorten the putter a few inches and everything else stays the same. The putter is so good, if there was any concern of it not being stable when it’s un-anchored it’s gone.”
In March, Scott tried to make the switch from the broomstick putter with an anchored stroke to a slightly longer-than-normal, counterbalanced putter with a larger grip. He tried it with some success at the WGC-Cadillac Championship, but the results didn’t carry over in his next two starts, leading the Aussie to go back to the broomstick.
In July 2013, Scott suggested the PGA Tour “laid down” in not challenging the proclamation from the USGA and R&A that the anchored stroke would be banned in 2016, saying then that he would respond by keeping his putter “millimeters” from his body.
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