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Originally Posted by St. Pats
The tour and the Champions tour should just keep them. There is no case for them being banned. Absolutely no proven stats that these putters are better. Otherwise players would be turning to them in droves.
Don't get it at all.
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These were the key justifcations cited, and I fully agree.
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On the lack of statistical evidence that an anchored stroke is an advantage: "The playing rules are not based on statistical studies; they are based on judgments that define the game and its intended challenges. One of those challenges is to control the entire club, and anchoring alters that challenge.
"Moreover, the issue is not whether anchoring provides a statistically demonstrable advantage to the average player, or on every stroke or in every circumstance. What matters here is whether, by diminishing obstacles inherent in the traditional stroke, anchoring may advantage some players at other times. Statistics are not necessary to resolve that issue."
• On few using an anchored stroke: "Many golfers believe that anchoring is not a proper way to play the game and have not anchored for that reason. Also, the trend over two decades is toward remarkably increasing use -- a particularly worrisome trend now that beginners and juniors are being taught anchored strokes."
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The anchored stroke has no place in the game. Personally speaking, I found it to be a turn off seeing a guy win with an anchored putter. I don't think a guy with a 6 footer has to deal with the same pressure with an anchored putter, and I was always more impressed watching a guy sink clutch putts down the stretch by swinging properly.