The Anchoring Ban

The Anchoring Ban

Author: Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner March 30, 2026 Duration: 19:49

There are just a handful of notable professional golfers still using the long putters, and whenever they have success, they are often publicly suspected of cheating the no-anchoring rule. In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss this pattern. Should anchoring have been banned in the first place? Is there a performance advantage from anchoring? And there's a putting technique that Lou hasn't tried?


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