The Anchoring Ban
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | I have a question for you, Lou. |
| 0:02.2 | This isn't probably, you're not the best person who asked this question. It is just me and Lou this week. Greg will be back. Don't worry. He's just busy. Because it's going to be a bit of an echo chamber this. So I'll try and play devil's advocate, I guess. I don't know if I'm going to be able to because this subject does really grind my gears. And it's anchored putting. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.6 | So the ban on anchored putting. |
| 0:24.9 | Yep. |
| 0:25.2 | But whenever you get someone in contentional doing well who uses a putter that hovers |
| 0:30.9 | anywhere near a player's chest. |
| 0:32.4 | So Langer gets at the moment. |
| 0:35.1 | Is it Akshay? |
| 0:36.2 | Am I saying? |
| 0:36.7 | Achshay Batia. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. He just won. Online just wants to take those wins away from these golfers by going cheat tell me that's not anchoring and so on and so |
| 0:47.2 | forth so first question i might be wrong where do you stand on the shouting of cheats of anchoring? |
| 0:56.6 | Like, I find it so hard not to comment on posts like that. |
| 1:00.3 | I mean, I don't because it's not worth it because it's just, it doesn't go anywhere. |
| 1:05.3 | But there's definitely, have you seen them? |
| 1:07.7 | Like, there's definitely people that post pictures and where do you |
| 1:11.0 | stand do you care is it cheating are they cheating are they not what well where are you with it |
| 1:14.9 | i think the putter should be the shortest club in the bag i think we should all have to use |
| 1:19.6 | persimmin drivers um and yeah yeah i don't and i think you shouldn't be a lot to change your shoes |
| 1:27.4 | in the parking lot yeah sorry the car, the car park. He probably did, didn't he? I bet he did. Yeah, those folks that used the long putters, they're notorious for changing shoes in the parking lot. Notorious. And that's what they're mostly known for. They probably hang out of their back window because they can't, they don't fit in the car. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, it's ridiculous. |
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