2 weeks Ago By Joseph McBride
Min Woo Lee won his first PGA Tour title on Sunday after emerging victorious at the Houston Open , and Scottie Scheffler was seen laughing following his antics before the winning putt. Lee finished 20-under-par and beat Scheffler and Gary Woodland by a single stroke, but mimicked using AimPoint for his final putt despite the ball being inches from the hole. While Scheffler saw the funny side, the crowd could be heard booing Lee, and though he wasn't on the broadcast, legendary golf commentator Jim Nantz hates the technology .
The green-reading technique and technology is meant to help golfers improve their putting, but has been heavily criticized for slowing down the pace of play. Nantz has said on several occasions that he doesn't like AimPoint, and 2009 U.S.
Open champion Lucas Glover even called for it to be banned . Nantz has covered the PGA Tour for nearly 40 years, and has mocked AimPoint on broadcasts in recent months. The technology relies on players using their feet and fingers to sense the slope of the green, but Nantz doesn't feel as though it's a good look for the game of golf.
While covering the Genesis Invitational in February, Nantz focused on a player reading their putt using AimPoint, and said: "That’s not a new dance step he’s doing there, turning around, spinning around a couple of times. That’s AimPoint." Back in October, Nantz also negatively referenced AimPoint as he said: "It really drives me crazy when you see their backs to the hole, and they’re trying to feel the break, and they walk another five feet and they do it again.
They go through this process [but] where’s the feel in it?" High-profile players including Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, and Collin Morikawa use the technology, and have defended it following criticism. Glover, who has six PGA Tour wins and one major success, believes that using AimPoint is "rude" to all other players. Speaking on the 'The Lucas Glover Show' on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, he said: "Statistically, [AimPoint] hasn’t helped anybody make more putts since its inception on the PGA Tour.
Statistics have borne that out. It’s also kind of rude to be up near the hole, stomping around figuring out where the break is in your feet. It needs to be banned.
It takes forever." AimPoint is free to use on the PGA Tour at present, and it's been heavily defended by Morikawa who believes that it's really helped his short game. Morikawa has admitted that players could be taught how to use it more efficiently, but doesn't share the same views as Nantz or Glover.
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99 a month and you can cancel anytime. "AimPoint does take longer if you’re not doing it properly, right, if you’re not doing it when other players are reading their putts," Morikawa said. "I think there’s a respect issue.
"I think some players might get a little bit too close to the hole and I get that. When you get too close to the hole when someone else is putting, yeah, like I don’t want my line and my putt to go over someone else’s foot and their marks. "From my perspective, AimPoint has 1,000 percent helped me.
I listen to the announcers sometimes during play and they say why would you AimPoint this, this and that. It gets a basis of how I read a putt and how I start my lines. It’s just like reading something from behind the hole or behind the ball, that’s how I’m getting my general read for that.
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