Collin Morikawa criticizes Pro’s harshness launch

In recent years, Aimpoint putting technology has swept the PGA Tour. Many top players, such as Collin Morikawa, have adopted a green reading strategy to improve their rolls. But not everyone is a fan.

Last week, former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover believed that the Aimpoint technology should be “banned” (requiring players to test green slopes at multiple points online). His main reason? Slow game.

It’s easy to support an idea when the call increases the pace of the game. But not every major is on the same page.

Morikava is one of them. Before Torrey Pines’ 2025 Genesis Invitational, the two-time major champion was asked about Glover’s goal criticism at his press conference.

Morikava’s first reaction? He suggested that Glover’s own preferred putting technique should be banned.

“I have nothing to do with Lucas [Glover],” Morikawa began, “But if we ban Aimpoint, I think we should ban long putts, too. ”

Glover won the standard putt from the 2009 U.S. Open, and he has switched to long putts from his late career. The long pusher is derived from the anchoring stimulation technology, which involves a player who holds the long pusher to his chest. The goal is to improve stability. However, USGA and R&A took drastic action after several players won the anchor putter title. The governing body announced the ban on the technology throughout the game in 2013, which took effect in 2016.

Since then, some players have continued to use or use long putts to compete in their matches. Many long users no longer have them fixed to their chest, placing their thumbs at the end of the push rod handle, almost anchoring their thumbs to their chest.

Technically, this new technology complies with the anchoring ban. But some critics think it’s basically the same thing.

But back to the target point. Glover criticized green reading technology and argued that this doesn’t statistically make players better. Most importantly, he claims that this is a shortcoming for other players.

“Near the hole, the position on the foot is also rude, the position on the foot is also on the foot,” Glover said on the “Lucas Glover Show” on the Siriusxm PGA Tour Radio. “It requires Forbidden. It needs to be forever.”

But on Tuesday, Morikawa was ready to object to every anti-iapoint argument in Glover.

First: Slow game and its impact on other players.

“If you don’t do this when other players read putting, Aimpoint does take longer, if you don’t. I think there is a respect issue. I think some players might be too close to the hole, I get it. When you’re too close to the hole when someone else is putting it, yes, like I don’t want my lines and putters to go past other people’s feet and their marks,” Morikava explained.

But he also noted that even without Aimpoint, players often leave spike marks and footprints near holes.

“I mean, when we pick up the putter, are you going to tell other players not to walk around the hole?” Morikava asked.

He also believes that no matter what Glover says, Aimpoint helped him in the game.

“From my point of view, Aimpoint helps me 1000%. I sometimes listen to announcers in competitions and they say why you put this and that. Here’s how I read the putter and how to start the line the foundation.” Morikava said. “It’s like reading something from behind a hole or behind a ball, and that’s how I read general reading for this.”

While Morikawa admits that the technology has indeed slowed down some players, criticism of it comes from places where misunderstandings are made. Some players are just slow overall.

“I don’t think people understand how Aimpoint really says it’s right or wrong. Will it slow down the game? I think some players might do it in the wrong position. Sometimes, look, I’ll admit, maybe, I can’t get in when I want it, so it adds for a few seconds. But I know, I know that. I think the player needs to know if he is slow, right? It’s like letting people know who is slow, do it on this Some things, right?”

Since both players in the field are in the Genesis Invitational, this argument may need to be addressed on the Greens in Torrey Pines’ historic Southern course.

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