{"id":132319,"date":"2025-09-10T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:19:10","slug":"adam-scott-makes-huge-putter-and-grip-changes-ahead-of-bmw-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132319\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Scott Makes Huge Putter And Grip Changes Ahead Of BMW PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

After using a broom-handle putter<\/a> for well over a decade, Adam Scott has made the surprise switch to a regular length putter at the BMW PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

Playing a practice round at Wentworth Club<\/a>, the Major winner revealed a notable gear change in his bag, the most eye-catching being a new L.A.B Golf putter<\/a> with completely new specs to his previous gamer.<\/p>\n

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Previously, Scott had been using the L.A.B. Golf MEZZ.1 Max<\/a>, opting to use a L.A.B Golf putter since 2019.<\/p>\n

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Being one of the first players to put the brand in the bag, he finished inside the top 50 for Strokes Gained: Putting from 2018 to 2024 on the PGA Tour; however a slump on the greens this season has seen him drop to 111th in that category, finishing the year 90th in the FedEx Cup standings.<\/p>\n

Last featuring at the Wyndham Championship at the start of August, finishing T55, Scott took a month off from the game, returning to the DP World Tour with the new flatstick, specifically a L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i HS (Heel Shafted)<\/a>, a new model recently added to the L.A.B Golf range.<\/p>\n

Reportedly, Scott actually helped design the putter head, with work on the OZ.1i range starting back in 2023. It’s the first heel-shafted putter the company has ever created.<\/p>\n

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Grip-wise, Scott has opted for the Press Pistol 2 Degree, which has 2\u00b0 of forward press built-in so that the Australian’s hands can sit slightly in front of neutral.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Scott was also seen using the claw grip, a move that World No.1 Scottie Scheffler has also implemented into his game<\/a> over the past few seasons to much success.<\/p>\n

Certainly, the move will be an interesting one to keep an eye on, especially as Scott hasn’t used a regular length putter since the beginning of the 2011 PGA Tour season.<\/p>\n

Introducing a broom-handle following the Sony Open in Hawaii of that year, Scott enjoyed many successes, including the 2013 Masters, where he wielded a 49-inch Scotty Cameron Futura X prototype.<\/p>\n

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Left – Scott during the 2011 Sony Open in Hawaii. Right- Scott during the 2025 Dubai Desert Classic<\/p>\n

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The reason for the change to a broom-handle putter came down to the fact that Scott was struggling with rhythm in his putting stroke and, after his instructor Brad Malone suggested giving the putter a try, it stayed in the bag of the Major winner.<\/p>\n

Throughout the last decade, though, the use of a broom-handle putter has been scrutinized and, in 2016, the anchored stroke used for the long putter was actually banned.<\/p>\n

Multiple players continue to use the long-style of putter, though, albeit not in an anchoring style, with Lucas Glover crediting it for saving his putting<\/a> after suffering with yips<\/a> for a portion of his career.<\/p>\n

Reverting to the L.A.B. Golf MEZZ.1 Max, the same model Scott previously used, Glover claimed the Wyndham Championship and FedEx St. Jude Championship in back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour in 2023.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the John Deere Classic that year, Glover stated: “I needed a whole new idea. A whole new brain function. The other one (putter) obviously wasn\u2019t working. I\u2019ve been struggling with short putts for so long. Just thought I needed to teach myself to do something else, and it\u2019s been working.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After using a broom-handle putter for well over a decade, Adam Scott has made the surprise switch to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-132319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}