{"id":7950,"date":"2012-11-28T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2012-11-28T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:14:08","slug":"belly-putter-ban-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7950","title":{"rendered":"Belly Putter Ban Coming ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bellyputter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7951\" title=\"bellyputter\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bellyputter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) &#8211; Golf is proposing to ban the<\/p>\n<p>putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions.<\/p>\n<p>The sport&#8217;s ruling bodies announced a new rule Wednesday that would make it illegal to anchor the club in making a stroke. The proposed rule is aimed at belly putters and long putters that are pressed against the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Keegan Bradley was the first player to win a major with the belly putter at the 2011 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Webb Simpson and Ernie Els used belly putters to win majors this year.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the golf stroke should be a free swing, and<\/p>\n<p>anchoring a club eliminates part of the skill.<\/p>\n<p>The rule would apply to golfers at every level. It would not<\/p>\n<p>take effect until 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) &#8211; Golf is proposing to ban the putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions. The sport&#8217;s ruling bodies announced a new rule Wednesday that would make it illegal to anchor the club in making a stroke. The proposed rule is aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}