In response, the company will be bringing long and belly putter editions of its Corza Ghost and Ghost Spider models to market faster than originally anticipated. “We can’t make these putters fast ...

“So the broken belly putter is in my trophy case at home. It’s on top.” Through two rounds in Honolulu, the short putter has proved equally useful for Simpson. He needed just 23 putts en route to an ...

First Posted: 11/20/2012 (AP) If not for Paul Azinger picking up a long putter that belonged to a short man, there might not be such a fuss over belly putters. The USGA and R&A are close to ...

“My idea was to have it so that the putter would be equal to or less than the shortest club in your bag,” Woods explained.”I think with that we’d be able to get away from any type of belly ...

Hume switched to the belly putter in December and said it took about two months to get used to. His misses at first were long, but he started consistently dropping those 3- and 4-footers which can ...

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Association said the rule would not outlaw belly putter or broom-handle putters, only the way they are currently used. The proposed rule would make ...

Players were given a multi-year grace period before it went into effect Jan. 1, 2016. Some of the players impacted went to arm anchoring, though others stopped using long putters altogether.

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Association said the rule would not outlaw belly putter or broom-handle putters, only the way they are currently used. The proposed rule would ...

That would be permitted. Belly putters are allowed, as long as they don’t touch the stomach, such as the style Angel Cabrera used when he won the 2009 Masters.

Belly anchored putters have been around for two decades, although their use had been mostly limited to players on the 50- and-over senior tours. Their popularity has increased among junior golfers ...

U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, one of three players to win a major with the controversial long putter, says he is not worried by a possible ban but believes that outlawing the club would be wrong.

Paul Azinger won the 2000 Sony Open with a putter that he pressed into his belly. Long putters began getting serious attention last year when Keegan Bradley became the first player to win a major ...