NEW YORK – In the spring of 2013 the battle lines were clearly drawn in the impending debate over the USGA and R&A’s push to ban anchored putting.
The PGA Tour and PGA of America opposed the new rule, but the USGA and R&A went on to ban the anchored stroke, creating a rift, albeit temporary, between the USGA and PGA. On Friday at the PGA’s annual meeting, USGA executive director Mike Davis offered the PGA’s membership a mea culpa.
“I will say going back three, four years ago it was a moment in time where our two organizations got sideways with one another.