GMac: USGA Has Research To Back Anchoring Ban

Mark Hayes in the Herald Sun with the revelation from former U.S. Open Champion Graeme McDowell regarding the governing bodies and their research into belly putterers.

"They're convinced the research has shown that under pressure on a Sunday afternoon the long putter just kind of takes one extraneous movement out of the putting stroke," McDowell said at Kingston Heath.

"It just makes it physically easier to stroke the putter when the nerves are there (and) I think we should be levelling the playing field (by banning it).

"I think it's probably something they're disappointed in themselves that it's got to this point. They probably should have nipped it in the bud many, many years ago."