by Garret
I don't know what you people are talking about, regarding the use of the long putter to cure a nervous problem. I just switched to the long putter because I think it's better from a standpoint of pure physics. I have always been a great putter, to the point where everyone calls me the Jedi master of putting. They were shocked when I wanted to try out a long putter. I always felt in the back of my mind that it's the most accurate way to put physiologically. When I tried it the first time, I knew my thinking was correct. I can pop ten footers in all day like 3 footers. Why would anyone talk bad about something that can make you play better. Why should they ban it like this article says they should. After all, look at all the clubs out there that replace other clubs that were suppose to do their job. For example, they make green side chippers to replace chipping with an iron. And look at the advances in irons. Should we tell all the people who took their 3 and 4 irons out of the bag and replaced them with rescue clubs or some kind of hybrid long iron, that they can't use them because it makes the long iron to easy to hit. Of course not. That's why a better and easier type of putter that makes more sense, should be no big deal either.

by Stephen Mantz
long putters banned in professional tournament play, or banned by the USGA, thus no golfer regardless of ability could use it? Try this scenario. I'm a 17 year-old high school senior who recently finished the season. As someone who has struggled with putting since I began playing in youth tournaments around the age of 9, the longer putter has been a most helpful. Three of my high school teammates (one has since graduated and is enjoying a successful golf career at Drexel), who's father happens to be a PGA professional, have used these longer putters. The one attending Drexel is an exceptional golf talent, but the other two
average in
the mid to upper 70's, as do I. Their PGA professional father has strongly emphasized the long putter to all of his sons, finally influencing me to
lose my
conventional 34-inch Odyssey and go over to a 43-inch Odyssey, which I use
as a
long putter because I'm on the short and stocky side. Getting to the point, I guess my gripe is what happens if one of the four of us gets to the level
where
we are able to play professionally, and suddenly the USGA bans these long putters from competition? The what? You're saying that these putters need to go because it takes most of the nerves and skill out of putting. But what
about
the size of these driver heads on tour? They look like someone stuck a metal
rod into a cantaloupe. There's obviously an advantage in having a 460 cc
driver. And you certainly swing differently with one of these metal behemoths than with a persimmon-headed club. You wouldn't train an up and coming
baseball
player with a regulation wooden bat, and then when he starts hitting a few
home
runs, give him one of those 18-inch souvenir bats, would you? And it isn't impossible to develop some hiccup in your putting stroke with the broomstick, either. I think people are only starting to complain now because a few
players
with the long putter have won some tournaments. If they're such a
problem, they
shouldn't have been allowed to begin with. Like I said, the only reason they weren't banned right away is because nobody was having breakout success with them. And having extra inches on your putter doesn't mean extra confidence standing over that 4-foot downhill slider.

by Matty
I cant believe Long putters have been banned i have been playing for a year know and am knopw saving up for a chin putter and am sad to hear that they have been band my dream is to get on the tour and i cant play without my long putter because thanks to the long putter i manged to reduce my handicap from a 23 to a 16 noy bad for only playing a year.
i also want to say that the usga are also thinking about taking away the htbrid clubs but nothing has come up so far........... thank god!!!!!!!!!!!

by Donald Bertsch
I agree