Aim Point. Back in the news!

The AimPoint putting technique has taken the PGA Tour by storm in recent years. Many top players, such as Collin Morikawa, have adopted the green-reading strategy to improve their rolls. But not everyone is a fan. Last week, former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover argued that the AimPoint technique — which requires players to test the slope of the green using their feet at multiple points on their line — should be “banned.” His primary reason? Slow play. It’s easy to support an idea when improving pace of play is invoked. But not every pro is on the same page.

Morikawa is one of them. On Tuesday in his press conference ahead of the 2025 Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, the two-time major champion was asked about Glover’s AimPoint criticism. Morikawa’s first reaction? He suggested Glover’s own preferred putting technique should be banned. “I have nothing against Lucas [Glover],” Morikawa began, “but if we’re banning AimPoint I think we should ban long putters as well.”

Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open with a standard-length putter, has switched to using a long putter late in his career. Long putters evolved from the anchored-putting technique, which involved a player anchoring the butt of a long putter into his chest. The goal was to increase stability. But after multiple players won majors anchoring their putters, the USGA and R&A took drastic action. The governing bodies announced a ban of the technique throughout the game in 2013, which went into effect in 2016.

Since then, some players have continued to use or adopted long putters into their games. No longer allowed to anchor them to their chest, many long-putter users do the next best thing, placing their thumb at the end of the putter handle and almost anchoring their thumb to their chest.

Colin Morikawa uses a TaylorMade TP Soto putter