RELATED:\u00a0Hal Sutton has an all-time Tiger Woods tale from the 2000 Players Championship<\/a><\/p>\n“In the rules, you can’t anchor,” he said. “Anchoring is if that putter was touching his sternum, up top. Or, you can arm-bar now, but you can’t anchor it against your torso.”<\/p>\n
Adams followed up, asking Spieth, who is on the PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council, if broomstick putters should be allowed at all.<\/p>\n
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“There’s a skill to it, and if it were that easy to do, and made everyone that much better, everyone would do it,” he said. “I would like the putter to be the shortest club in your bag because it is the shortest club in my bag and I do believe that it forces more skill. It takes\u2014it uses your hands more, which makes you have to be more athletic. But at the same time, I could easily go [use a broomstick] if I thought it was going to make me better.”<\/p>\n
Spieth’s full comments can be viewed in the clip below:<\/p>\n
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