Vegan702
New member
Our club had our annual member-guest tournament this weekend. While playing the practice round on Friday we were paired with a twosome who was in another flight. The tournament was broken up by flights based on handicaps, so their score had no affect on my flight. One of the guys had an illegal putter. I know this as I just had a fitting done on my long putter and had inquired about just having the shaft bent straight up. I was informed by the PGA pro that it had to be at least 10* from straight up and at least 80* from the ground. I questioned the guy about is putter as I could tell it was fabricated at home, extra weight added to the back of the putter and the shaft virtually straight up. I didn't come straight out and say that the putter was illegal, as I have yet to look up the rule regarding this, but I would assume the PGA pro knew what he was talking about. Would have mentioned this to anyone since it didn't involve you and it was a member-guest tournament? If it were in my SNGA tournament I would have definitely mentioned it, but didn't feel it was worth the confrontation in this tournament. Plus he was in the scratch division and figured they could bring it up themselves if they were concerned about it. They didn't come in 1st, but they did come in 2nd for a small prize.