{"id":12680,"date":"2012-07-23T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-long-putter-issue-firmly-on-radar-says-ra\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:19:29","slug":"golf-long-putter-issue-firmly-on-radar-says-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-long-putter-issue-firmly-on-radar-says-ra\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Long putter issue firmly on radar, says R&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Pilcher<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Some players<br \/>\ndo not like the advantage fellow competitors gain by anchoring a<br \/>\nlonger putter into their chest or stomach and officials will<br \/>\ndiscuss the issue in months rather than years, Royal  Ancient<br \/>\nchief executive Peter Dawson said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The British Open ended on Sunday and winner Ernie Els and<br \/>\nrunner-up Adam Scott both wielded belly putters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is that the RA and the USGA do have this<br \/>\nsubject firmly back on the radar,&#8221; Dawson told a news conference<br \/>\nafter Els&#8217;s one-shot victory over Australian Scott.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;re going to see us saying something about it<br \/>\none way or the other in a few months rather than years,&#8221; added<br \/>\nDawson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Els, a four-times major winner and widely respected promoter<br \/>\nof the game, said last year he felt using a longer putter was<br \/>\ncheating but that if they were allowed then why not take<br \/>\nadvantage.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of the last four major tournaments, three have been won by<br \/>\nplayers using such equipment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>American Keegan Bradley carried one for his U.S. PGA<br \/>\nChampionship victory in August as did compatriot Webb Simpson at<br \/>\nlast month&#8217;s U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dawson said he was fully aware of complaints that the long<br \/>\nputters were unfair.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Pilcher LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Some players do not like the advantage fellow competitors gain by anchoring a longer putter into their chest or stomach and officials will discuss the issue in months rather than years, Royal Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson said on Monday. The British Open ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}