Anchored putter

[rich1981]

I am sure this will probably get a quick answer but I couldn't find it myself.

Playing in our club matchplay yesterday evening and I noticed my FC was anchoring his putter under his trouser belt. He went on to mention it later in the round explaining that it keeps his stroke steady and if he tries to putt without it the putter head wanders on his back stroke. Is this allowed?

He sank everything and hammered me by the way.

 

[duncan mackie]

anchoring his putter under his trouser belt.

the future revision announced to the rules re anchoring the putter grip suggest that it is currently within the rules

I'm struggling to understand how this particular anchoring technique is fundamentally different from those in use by many players today?

what would not be acceptable would, for example, be the use of a trouser belt to fix the putter grip to a forearm, but there's no practical difference between jamming the grip into a belly or wedging the end of it above, or below, the belt being used to hold up trousers

someone wearing a trouser belt around their middle unattached to their trousers solely to anchor their putter would also seem to me to fall foul of the unusual use of equipment rules!

make sure you draw him again in a couple of years!

 

[rich1981]

Yeah I am sure you are right. It was just something I had never seen before and it threw me out a bit. I don't doubt I would have still been hammered anyway, but maybe by a hole less