Bernhard Langer and his son Jason won the 2024 PNC Championship after a grueling sudden-death playoff with Tiger and Charlie Woods. Despite winning the event for the sixth time in his career, he has found himself at the center of a heated debate in the golf world.
A video shared by NUCLR Golf on X (formerly known as Twitter), shows the PGA Tour veteran using his signature putter with a long shaft. The caption accompanying the clip posed the question (via X @NUCLRGolf):
“#DISCUSSION: In your opinion, would you consider this anchoring?”
Anchoring involves bracing the club against the body to create a stable pivot point. However, the move was banned by the United States Golf Association (USGA) in Rule 14-1.
Despite the ban, the USGA permits using long-shafted putters as long as they are not anchored to the body. However, one golf enthusiast criticized the move and said:”I don’t care about the results from the PNC [Championship] but how can you possibly say this isn’t anchoring the putter, it’s textbook anchoring.
