NORTON, Mass. -- If any other proof was needed that the belly putter is the hottest thing going on the PGA TOUR, it became official Thursday -- Phil Mickelson is using it for his pro-am round at the ...

Golf's governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage instead of a last resort, proposed a new rule Wednesday that would ban the putting stroke used by three of the ...

Belly putters have been used on Tour for several years; Paul Azinger was the first to win with one back at the 2000 Sony Open. Sparked largely by Keegan Bradley’s PGA Championship victory, though, a ...

SAN MARTIN, Calif. – Ernie Els has long maintained that belly putters should be against the rules. Now he stands poised to win his first tournament with one. ‘Right now I’m glad they haven’t banned it ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Keegan Bradley insists that his days with the belly putter are over. He’s just not willing to break it over his knee. Bradley used an anchored stroke in each of his three PGA Tour ...

As Webb Simpson begins a new chapter in his career with a regulation-length putter, a logical question arises: if things go awry, how long until he reverts back to the familiar belly putter? The ...

Wednesday’s ruling by golf’s governing bodies that outlaws anchoring the putter to any part of the body — but not the long putter itself — makes manufacturers happy, purists happy and, most of all, ...

NEW YORK -- The PGA Tour says it opposes the proposed ban on anchored strokes by golf's rule makers, yielding the possibility that events on the world's richest circuit could eventually have different ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Webb Simpson credited everyone around him for winning The Players Championship, his fifth career victory and in some respects his most important. And he didn’t stop with ...

(AP) If not for Paul Azinger picking up a long putter that belonged to a short man, there might not be such a fuss over belly putters. The USGA and R&A are close to announcing their position on ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Golf’s governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage instead of a last resort, proposed a new rule Wednesday that would ban the putting ...

Tiger Woods has had it right all along, and golf’s ruling bodies finally have it right, too. Anchoring a putter against the body contravenes the spirit of the game. And now it will contravene the ...