Now that 2022 is here, it's impossible to talk about changes in the new year without mentioning that starting this week's Sentinel Championship, the PGA Tour will ban the use of greens.
Domestically, this object is rarely seen even on the Men's and Women's Tour, but this pocket-sized, yard book, contains a green atlas with detailed information about the green, which has been used on the PGA Tour since 2008, and it can help players understand the direction of the putter and the size of the slope of different areas of the green.
The creation of the green book has improved the success rate of the players on the green, but a long time ago, the USGA and R&A believed that this weakened the players' traditional green interpretation ability to a certain extent, which is a loss of the putting art. As early as 2018, the two major rule bodies sought changes to this issue on a global scale, but the thunder and rain were small, perhaps there were many opponents, and the revised version introduced at that time only limited the size and scale of the green book, and the range of modifications was unexpectedly small.
And in May 2020, the ban was mentioned again. The PGA Tour Player Advisory Board voted to ban the auxiliary player from playing in a toolbook. As a veteran of the PGA Tour, Kevin Strellman himself is a member of the PGA Tour's 16-man player advisory board and has been a big fan of Green Ben over the past few years, explaining why the committee had such an idea, one of the reasons for which was that 'when players bury their heads in the green when judging the turn of the putt, such a scene is really not good on TV'.
David Raf III said: "At the Ryder Cup in 2016, you saw people with machines shooting at flagpoles and then putting information on 8×12 inches of paper, which became too technological. Yes, now everything is added to technology – rangefinders, GPS, score recording, everything. But we need to be careful not to make golf a video game. ”
McIlroy, who chairs the PGA Tour's player advisory committee, said at the U.S. Open last June that "the green is not an advantage, it just erases a technique that takes time and practice to master, and I think judging the green is a technology, some people are better than others." The greens have zeroed out this advantage that people have. ”
Let's take a look at what the players who support the new rule have to say:
Justin Rose: "I won as many races with the green book as I did when I didn't rely on the green book, I don't rely on it, I use it as a quick guide, but not in concept and strategy. ”
Jordan Spieth: "I'm not too worried about not having green ben's help, which is exactly what I asked for at Augusta, but I have a great record at Augusta, including winning the championship in 2015, so I'm happy to see a new change." ”
Luke Donald: "We shouldn't be giving people a tool book that writes all the answers. ”
Taylor Gucci, who won the RSM Classic and was the winner of the PGA Tour's last race to allow the use of the putting green, said: "It takes me away from my instincts and skills, and if I don't have almost another voice in my head, it's good and I think it will free me up." ”
The PGA Tour ban took effect on Jan. 1, 2022, but it's at this week's Sentinel Championship.
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