tapping in putt with toe of putter

[Golfingdad]

Originally Posted by Dormie1360

I could do a short list of some of the most common myths regarding golf rules if anyone's insterested.  I'm new, so it may have been done already.

Regards,

John

Well, I am new as well so you'd have at least one interested party.  Plus you are already one for one in my book with your handicap knowledge on unfinished rounds.  So let's hear it!

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by Dormie1360

Hey mtsalmela80,

With your example I would say you would be in breach of Rule 4-1b.  A club that conforms to the rules when new must not be altered, other than in the normal course of play, where the club in it's altered state would not confirm with the Rules.  As mentioned before, striking surfaces must be opposing on a putter.  I wouldn't think that you could create a new striking face on the toe, and at the same time declare the front of the Anser to be a non striking face when that's how it was originally designed.  Also, you now have a putter that has a much longer body front to back than it's striking surface, which is illegal.

Having said that, if a company designed a putter that just so happended to have a flat toe, I think, as long as the toe isn't identified as a striking surface, the club would probably be legal.

You're making my head hurt.

Do you really want to make a club like this?

Regards,

John

Yeah... my question is why are we wasting our time arguing about something so silly?

[Alistair]

As an aside to the 'tap in' discussion, I've seen a few people miss them when being careless or unorthodox such as attempting it backhanded.  Also, many years ago  - probably in the mid 80s - one of the leading contenders in an Open Championship at St. Andrews had an air shot when standing awkwardly for a tap in. I think it might have been Hale Irwin.  My dim memory suggests that at the end he was one shot away from being in a play off.

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by Alistair

As an aside to the 'tap in' discussion, I've seen a few people miss them when being careless or unorthodox such as attempting it backhanded.  Also, many years ago  - probably in the mid 80s - one of the leading contenders in an Open Championship at St. Andrews had an air shot when standing awkwardly for a tap in. I think it might have been Hale Irwin.  My dim memory suggests that at the end he was one shot away from being in a play off.

Irwin whiffed a 1-3 inch tap in (there is some debate on the actual length) in the 1983 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and lost by one stroke to Tom Watson.

[k-troop]

Irwin whiffed a 1-3 inch tap in (there is some debate on the actual length) in the 1983 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and lost by one stroke to Tom Watson.

I saw Irwin do the same thing at the Champions Tour event in Austin TX. He yipped a three footer then angrily swatted at the tap in and whiffed it. Was in 2003 or 2004. I thought he wa going to beat his caddy to death with his putter.

[behing19]

No illegal, but when you try once and miss....you'll realize it's stupid and you won't do it again.