Tim Finchem’s Against Anchoring Ban Speech: Warning: These Are Minutes Of Your Life You Wont Get Back
Tim Finchem made his pitch last night in front of millions defending Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson who dont have the yips, just know no other way to putt other than using a belly putter. Here’s the key paragraph of his blurb.
The USGA and the R&A notified us several months ago about their intention to put forward a proposal to change â€'â€' essentially change the rule as it relates to what a stroke is by further defining it as something where you can't ground your club and anchor your club. In addition to the historical limitations on what a stroke is of scraping the ball or scooping the ball or pushing the ball.
We then undertook to go through a process to determine our position on that because they had a commentary that ends next week. We brought that to a conclusion last week. You're all aware of that because of the comments that have been made by folks who were involved in that process. Our Player Advisory Council looked at it twice. We had the USGA come in and make a presentation to a player meeting in San Diego, USGA made a presentation to our Board.
We researched and looked at it and articulated our position at the end of last week to the USGA and shared that thinking also with the R&A.
Essentially where the PGA TOUR came down was that they did not think that banning anchoring was in the best interest of golf or the PGA TOUR.
The full transcript is on Geoff Shack’s blog here
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