PGA Tour Reserves Right to Make Rules; PGA Tour Players Won’t Sue, Yet

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Published: July 5, 2013

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While the PGA Tour has indicated it will go along with the ban on anchored putting, don’t assume the anchored putting issue is irrevocably dead.  In later paragraphs of the PGA Tour announcement, there was a small shot fired over the bow of the USGA.  

It is a simple policy and is one that the PGA Tour utilized back in the days of the square grooves battle, as outlined on its website:  

PGA Tour competitions are conducted in accordance with the USGA Rules of Golf. However, the Policy Board reserves the right to make modifications for PGA Tour competitions if it deems it appropriate.

That means if the PGA Tour players decide in the future they want to allow anchoring of long putters, or putting with hockey sticks, they reserve the right to do it. It is the only hope the long putting players not named Matt Kuchar have at this point.   

Amateurs have no recourse if they wish to play under the Rules of Golf. The option for them is to play by other rules that they determine at their course, at their clubs or on the first tee.  There is no all-seeing, all-encompassing rule that you have to play by the Rules of Golf to play the game.  However, most competitions today are played under the Rules of Golf.  Recreational players use all kinds of crazy rules. 

However, the PGA Tour’s statement added a plea for amateurs and backed the PGA of America in its request to stop the anchoring ban by asking that the USGA reconsider banning anchored strokes for amateurs.   

But the USGA is having none of that. They issued a follow-up to their original announcement on their official website, which read:

The United States Golf Association is pleased with the decision by the PGA Tour and The PGA of America to follow Rule 14-1b, when it goes into effect in January 2016, for their respective competitions. As set forth in our...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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