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琢磨Belly putter的同学，请多加考虑。。。
Starting in 2016, this type of putting stroke will be illegal
Published on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 12:13PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 12:30PM EST
Golf is proposing to ban the putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions.
The sport’s ruling bodies announced a new rule Wednesday that would make it illegal to anchor the club in making a stroke. The proposed rule is aimed at belly putters and long putters that are pressed against the body. Keegan Bradley was the first player to win a major with the belly putter at the 2011 PGA Championship. Webb Simpson and Ernie Els used belly putters to win majors this year.
Officials say the golf stroke should be a free swing, and anchoring a club eliminates part of the skill.
“This is all about the stroke,” said Mike Davis, head of the USGA said on a teleconference Wednesday morning in explaining the reasons for the rule change. “This is just going to focus on anchored strokes. We had intent to allow many different types of strokes... This is not an equipment change.”
"There will not be a breach of this rule unless there is intent to anchor it. If it is accidental, there is no breach."
Dean Ryan, the Rules of Golf Committee Chair for Golf Canada, said they would amend the Rules of Golf to fall in line with the USGA and R&A proposal.
"As the National Sport Organization and governing body of golf in Canada, Golf Canada, in conjunction with the R&A and the United States Golf Association, will be amending the Rules of Golf to introduce Rule 14-1b as it relates to the prohibition on anchoring of the golf club," Ryan said in a statement.
"One of the key fundamentals of the game of golf is to have the entire club swing freely from the body during a stroke. The recent trend in stabilizing the club by anchoring it to the body goes against the principles and traditions inherent with the sport.
"As a member of the Joint Rules Committee, Golf Canada has worked closely with the R&A and USGA in drafting the new Rule and over the next three years will communicate this revision to the Rules of Golf to all Canadian golfers in order to effectively implement this change when the next Rules of Golf code comes into effect on January 1, 2016."
Keegan Bradley was the first player to win a major with the belly putter at the 2011 U.S. PGA Championship. Webb Simpson and Ernie Els used belly putters to win majors this year.
Davis and R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said the catalyst for the new rule was not who was winning tournaments, but the number of players switching to long putters.
Their research showed no more than 4 percent of golfers used the clubs for several years. It went to 6 percent in 2006, and then to 11 percent in 2011, with some PGA Tour events having as much as 20 percent of the players using the long clubs. There was no empirical data to suggest a long putter made golf easier. Carl Pettersson (No. 21) and Bradley (No. 27) were the only players among the top 30 in putting this year on the PGA Tour who used long putters.
“We don't think putting in an anchored way is easy. You have to learn how to do it,” Dawson said. “But it takes one of the potential frailties out of the stroke ... We have to retain the skill and challenge inherent in golf.”
The rule would apply to golfers at every level, professionals and amateurs alike.
The R&A and USGA is expected to take a final decision on the proposed Rule change in the spring 2013. Anyone wishing to provide written comments to the appropriate governing body is encouraged to do so by February 28, 2013 at the following addresses: anchoring@randa.org or feedback@usga.org.
(Files from the Associated Press and Reuters were used in this report)
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Starting in 2016, this type of putting stroke will be illegal
Published on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 12:13PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 12:30PM EST
Golf is proposing to ban the putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions.
The sport’s ruling bodies announced a new rule Wednesday that would make it illegal to anchor the club in making a stroke. The proposed rule is aimed at belly putters and long putters that are pressed against the body. Keegan Bradley was the first player to win a major with the belly putter at the 2011 PGA Championship. Webb Simpson and Ernie Els used belly putters to win majors this year.
Officials say the golf stroke should be a free swing, and anchoring a club eliminates part of the skill.
“This is all about the stroke,” said Mike Davis, head of the USGA said on a teleconference Wednesday morning in explaining the reasons for the rule change. “This is just going to focus on anchored strokes. We had intent to allow many different types of strokes... This is not an equipment change.”
"There will not be a breach of this rule unless there is intent to anchor it. If it is accidental, there is no breach."
Dean Ryan, the Rules of Golf Committee Chair for Golf Canada, said they would amend the Rules of Golf to fall in line with the USGA and R&A proposal.
"As the National Sport Organization and governing body of golf in Canada, Golf Canada, in conjunction with the R&A and the United States Golf Association, will be amending the Rules of Golf to introduce Rule 14-1b as it relates to the prohibition on anchoring of the golf club," Ryan said in a statement.
"One of the key fundamentals of the game of golf is to have the entire club swing freely from the body during a stroke. The recent trend in stabilizing the club by anchoring it to the body goes against the principles and traditions inherent with the sport.
"As a member of the Joint Rules Committee, Golf Canada has worked closely with the R&A and USGA in drafting the new Rule and over the next three years will communicate this revision to the Rules of Golf to all Canadian golfers in order to effectively implement this change when the next Rules of Golf code comes into effect on January 1, 2016."
Keegan Bradley was the first player to win a major with the belly putter at the 2011 U.S. PGA Championship. Webb Simpson and Ernie Els used belly putters to win majors this year.
Davis and R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said the catalyst for the new rule was not who was winning tournaments, but the number of players switching to long putters.
Their research showed no more than 4 percent of golfers used the clubs for several years. It went to 6 percent in 2006, and then to 11 percent in 2011, with some PGA Tour events having as much as 20 percent of the players using the long clubs. There was no empirical data to suggest a long putter made golf easier. Carl Pettersson (No. 21) and Bradley (No. 27) were the only players among the top 30 in putting this year on the PGA Tour who used long putters.
“We don't think putting in an anchored way is easy. You have to learn how to do it,” Dawson said. “But it takes one of the potential frailties out of the stroke ... We have to retain the skill and challenge inherent in golf.”
The rule would apply to golfers at every level, professionals and amateurs alike.
The R&A and USGA is expected to take a final decision on the proposed Rule change in the spring 2013. Anyone wishing to provide written comments to the appropriate governing body is encouraged to do so by February 28, 2013 at the following addresses: anchoring@randa.org or feedback@usga.org.
(Files from the Associated Press and Reuters were used in this report)
HAVE YOUR SAY
Let us know what you think of the proposed rule change banning the anchored stroke. Click here to send along your comments.
