Hear the phrase "anchored" and you tend to think of barnacle-encrusted sea dogs sitting on the dock guzzling rum, singing shanties and recalling the kind of eyebrow- raising exploits on an ocean wave that would've shattered the timbers let alone shivered them.
Hear the phrase \"anchored\" and you tend to think of barnacle-encrusted sea dogs sitting on the dock guzzling rum, singing shanties and recalling the kind of eyebrow- raising exploits on an ocean wave that would've shattered the timbers let alone shivered them.
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Nick Rodger
In the increasingly choppy waters of golf, however, the aforementioned term looks likely to provoke the Royal & Ancient game's equivalent of Mutiny On The Bounty.
On Thursday, the three-month long "period of consultation" over the proposed ban on anchoring a club to a part of the body during, predominantly, the putting stroke will draw to a close. When, at the back end of 2012, the R&A and the USGA, the two governing bodies, unveiled plans for a new addition to the Rule Book, rule 14-1b, which would prohibit the anchored method, it seemed the golfing world was ready to pick up the metaphorical marker and say "aye, we'll gie ye that".
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