Golf: Bradley challenges putter switch

Golf’s global governing bodies announced a proposal to ban putting techniques in which putter is anchored on the body.

THOUSAND OAKS: Keegan Bradley cannot do much about those bashing his use of the belly putter on Twitter but when his fellow pros were pouring it on, he took action. “I was putting with Tiger (at the World Challenge invitational), and I grabbed his putter which is about the opposite of what I putt with, and I made three out of four putts from 10 feet. So I made sure to remind those guys every time I see them that I made those putts.” On Wednesday, golf’s global governing bodies announced a proposal to ban putting techniques in which the putter is anchored on the body, intensifying scrutiny of a practice that had been criticised despite being permitted by the rules of golf. Such a ban will not go into effect until 2016, and Bradley said he would be ready.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2012.