Just reading in April Golf Australia mag the broomstick putter will be banned from this years Masters Tournament. Tournament chairman Bill Payne, states that in an equipment related change, Augusta National has decreed that every Masters competitor must use a putter that is the shortest club in his bag and that the hands must be the only part of the body in contact with that club.

Well maybe following year they can all use, spoons, niblicks, persimmon woods and of course feather studded bits of leather with a Titleist stamp on the side.!!

What a load of bullshit!! If there was any inequality involved in using this type of putter then reast assured ALL the players would have them.

As for me I use a short putter but i don’t see any reason why someone can’t use any bloody length putter they like. The ones I know who use long putters here couldn’t putt to save their lives, with or without a long putter.

If there was such a large advantage to using them, don’t you think everyone would have been using them? That is like saying you can only use drivers with “X” length shafts and under.

Just reading in April Golf Australia mag the broomstick putter will be banned from this years Masters Tournament. Tournament chairman Bill Payne, states that in an equipment related change, Augusta National has decreed that every Masters competitor must use a putter that is the shortest club in his bag and that the hands must be the only part of the body in contact with that club.

I’ve looked for a link to this and can find nothing.Is this an early April fool’s prank by someone or is this meant to be taken seriously?
Not saying that you’re wrong,it’s just quite bizarre.V.J. for one will be fairly unhappy about this if correct.

Just reading in April Golf Australia mag the broomstick putter will be banned from this years Masters Tournament. Tournament chairman Bill Payne, states that in an equipment related change, Augusta National has decreed that every Masters competitor must use a putter that is the shortest club in his bag and that the hands must be the only part of the body in contact with that club.

I’ve looked for a link to this and can find nothing.Is this an early April fool’s prank by someone or is this meant to be taken seriously?
Not saying that you’re wrong,it’s just quite bizarre.V.J. for one will be fairly unhappy about this if correct.

It would be a favour to VJ. He’s tried everything but this year.

Just reading in April Golf Australia mag the broomstick putter will be banned from this years Masters Tournament. Tournament chairman Bill Payne, states that in an equipment related change, Augusta National has decreed that every Masters competitor must use a putter that is the shortest club in his bag and that the hands must be the only part of the body in contact with that club.

I’ve looked for a link to this and can find nothing.Is this an early April fool’s prank by someone or is this meant to be taken seriously?
Not saying that you’re wrong,it’s just quite bizarre.V.J. for one will be fairly unhappy about this if correct.

It would be a favour to VJ. He’s tried everything but this year.

You must have missed last week’s event in that case , where he used the belly putter to very good effect.

belly putter would also be banned “the hands must be the only part of the body in contact with that club.”
another reason to be annoyed at Els and Adam Scott

Go to the newsagent and check out the interview with John Huggan on page 114 of April Golf Australia, I hope it is an april fools joke as I am a big fan of Peter Lonard.

When I read it I thought they are takin the piss??

Has to be a joke.

Nothing on Augusta’s website.

The committee would not take such a step. They were championed as perhaps the only committee in the world who could have introduced a single “tournament” ball and still have everyone turn up to play, but they didn’t do this and went down the road of growing rough, lengthening the course and planting trees.

They should have introduced a tournament ball IMO.

So the laughs on us about the putter…...

Trysil

thye as one tournament cant overule the USGA and R 7 A rules anyway….just like my local club can overide the rules of golf!

This exact “rumor” was floating around this time last year, I heard from local golf pro, but not about Augusta. It was rumored to be a rule change being contemplated by the R&A & USGA.
May be being floated again to see what reaction from the golfing public….sounds to me like it may be surfacing again.

This exact “rumor” was floating around this time last year, I heard from local golf pro, but not about Augusta. It was rumored to be a rule change being contemplated by the R&A & USGA.
May be being floated again to see what reaction from the golfing public….sounds to me like it may be surfacing again.

Sounds more like an April Fool’s prank to me.

No a fan of long putter. But if the rules allow then they should be allowed to use it. I think I agree with the April Fool thing :)

The whole article is a piss-take. Geez, he even says they are thinking of playing the course backwards to confuse the pro’s!!!!!

April fool joke for sure.

Just bring on the masters!

We’ll just need to wait & see …April fools, probably BUT watch this space, if it walks like, smells like, looks like etc etc