Golf's governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage instead of a last resort, proposed a new rule Wednesday that would ban the putting stroke used by three of the ...

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 30: Kyeong Bae in the 12th hole during round one of Hana Bank Kolon Championship at Sky 72 Golf Club on October 30, 2009 in Incheon, South Korea. (Photo by Chung ...

THOUSAND OAKS, California, Nov 27 (Reuters) - With a widely expected ban on anchoring long putters likely to be announced by the game's ruling bodies on Wednesday, players have expressed sharply ...

One customer who had been using a belly putter already came to the store to purchase a new standard putter because of the proposed rule change, Hoffstetter said. “It may slow down sales [of belly ...

KAPALUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Less than a year remains before PGA Tour players have to accept a ban by golf's rulemakers on long putters being anchored to the body and Tim Clark is among those who ...

Bradley now is lumped in with three of the last five major champions using a belly putter, but he was the catalyst. European Tour chief executive George O Grady said the conversations between golf s ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Golf’s governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage instead of a last resort, proposed a new rule Wednesday that would ban the putting stroke ...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - If golf decides to ban long putters, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson will be ready. Simpson said Wednesday he ordered two Scotty Cameron putters that are conventional length and ...

If there is any actual advantage to using a belly putter or long putter, there’s also a disadvantage. The disadvantage is that most players who make the switch have a problem. Most fellows who make ...

Carrying a traditional putter isn't like having a 2-iron in the bag yet, but there's no question the belly putter is in the midst of a surge in popularity. The watershed moment came last August, when ...

Back when manufacturers were trying to decide the “standard” length of mass-produced putters, they relied on a bizarre metric: the height of a golf bag. If you measure the front lip of your typical ...

As I’ve chronicled my own golf journey through gear, I’ve started to realize that I’ve fallen into some of the bad habits that we here at GOLF preach against. Take my putting. Not until I was fit for ...