Major champ hits out at AimPoint: “It takes forever and should be banned!”

Should AimPoint be banned? One PGA Tour star and Major champion thinks so.

Should AimPoint be banned? One PGA Tour star and major champion certainly thinks so…

AimPoint tends to be one of the most divisive things in golf. Proponents swear it makes green-reading much easier and helps you hole more putts, while detractors say it looks ridiculous, takes forever, and doesn’t work anyway.

It’s the “takes forever” part that makes AimPoint so controversial. At a time when pace of play is a hot topic and rounds on tour are getting worryingly close to six hours, seeing golfers two-step around the green and raise their fingers in the air before rolling in an 18-inch putt doesn’t seem like it’s what we need.

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But the likes of Viktor Hovland, Dustin Johnson, Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Max Homa, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose, Lydia Ko, Stacy Lewis, and Adam Scott must think they’re on to something, with the latter saying AimPoint was “huge” in transforming his fortunes on the green.

AimPoint claim that 65 percent of PGA Tour players now use the green-reading system and it certainly seems to be becoming more and more common, even amongst amateur golfers. According to the AimPoint website, 300,000 amateur golfers, 400 tour pros, and 300 instructors are using the unique green-reading system to, as AimPoint put it, “make everything!”

One man not happy to see the proliferation of AimPoint is six-time PGA Tour winner and 2009 US Open champion Lucas Glover.

“AimPoint, statistically, hasn’t helped anybody make more putts since its inception on the PGA Tour,” he told SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. “Statistics have beared [sic] that out.”

45-year-old Glover, who has had his fair share of putting problems in the past, added: “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.”

Glover isn’t the first to take aim at AimPoint. Zimbabwe’s Tony Johnstone, who won six times on the European Tour before embarking on a career as a Sky Sports commentator, once said “You might as well use horoscopes to read putts” and described AimPoint instructors as “snake oil salesmen”.