Woods bashes belly putters
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Tiger Woods admits he has "never been a fan" of long putters and has a solution to make them fairer.
Long putters became the talk of golf in 2011 with Keegan Bradley becoming the first major champion to use a belly putter and Adam Scott turning around his fortunes by employing a broomstick.
Woods doesn't like either and has suggested that one idea to to combat the anchoring into the stomach of the belly and the pressing against the chest of the brom-style putter is to make long putters no longer than the shortest club in the bag.
Talking about putting at his press conference ahead of this week's Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Woods said: "I believe it's the art of controlling the body and club and swinging the pendulum motion.
I believe that's how it should be played. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to that."
Woods said he has spoken to Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson about how the language could be written in the Rules of Golf that effectively would ban such putters.
"My idea was to have it so that the putter would be equal to or less than the shortest club in your bag," Woods said. "And I think with that, we'd be able to get away from any type of belly anchoring."
He said the putter still could be anchored to the forearm, a technique once used by two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer.
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