A number of players have suggested a range of solutions for how the PGA Tour can tackle the issue of slow play, with Lucas Glover amongst those who has not been afraid to cause his stir with his views on the matter.
It appears that the PGA Tour is ready to make changes which will generally speed up their events, with fans seemingly expressing their frustration by not watching some tournaments.
But deciding which changes are going to be made is not going to be easy. Rory McIlroy suggested smaller fields would help, while Lucas Glover called for aimpoint to be banned.
Glover suggested that the practice takes too long, while he also insisted that it is rude for players to be stepping around the hole as they try and work out the break of their putt using their feet.
Wyndham Clark issues verdict on banning aimpoint on the PGA Tour
It would arguably be extremely difficult to ban aimpoint given that players use a range of methods to read their putts. And it seems that some are not as offended by aimpoint as the 2009 US Open champion, with Wyndham Clark telling Dan on Golf that he has no issue with the practice when asked about Glover’s comments.
“It doesn’t bother me. It still takes feel and skill. I guess someone could argue that it doesn’t take skill, but you have to train your feet to be able to feel what one, two, three percent is. And then you have to be able to, one, be good at that, but also know how your arm length and the changes. I mean, I don’t really care,” he said.
The prediction Keegan Bradley made about aimpoint
It would disappoint a lot of golfers if aimpoint was banned. Clearly, some players are huge fans of the method, while others obviously see no benefit to using it themselves.
Interestingly, Keegan Bradley – who is one of those who uses it – previously claimed to Fore Play Golf that it is likely to be how the large majority of youngsters read greens in the future.
“Now that I’ve been doing aimpoint, I try not to let my eyes tell me anything,” he said. “I’m telling you, in 10 years, when these younger kids all get out, no one will be reading greens. Zero.”
There is definitely scope for players to speed up on the greens. And it would arguably be the easiest spot on the course for officials to use a shot clock with all of the players in exactly the same place.
But it seems that some need to be convinced of Glover’s view that getting rid of aimpoint would be a worthwhile move from the PGA Tour.
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