PGA Tour Veteran Gets Taste of Own Medicine After Demanding Ban on What Collin Morikawa Does on the Greens

Aim Point or Long Putters? What’s your choice? Well, the debate is heating up, and right at the center of it are Lucas Glover and Collin Morikawa. You don’t need a reminder about the PGA Tour’s slow-play problem—it’s been frustrating for just about everyone. Players, fans, broadcasters, even influencers… nobody enjoys watching rounds drag on longer than they should. All have started to voice out their thoughts, actively. Now, Lucas Glover has shared his.

He thinks he has a solution to help slow play: Ban AimPoint—the green-reading technique many players use to judge slope and aim their putts. On his SiriusXM radio show, the 2009 U.S. Open champ didn’t hold back: “AimPoint, statistically, hasn’t helped anybody make more putts since its inception on the PGA Tour. Statistics have beared that out,” the 2009 U.S. Open champion said. “It’s also kinda 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.”

Now, Glover knows a thing or two about putting struggles. For a decade, he battled the yips before finally turning things around in August 2023, winning back-to-back events. His secret? Working with an ex-Navy SEAL and switching to a broomstick putter. Ever since he hasn’t looked back—and certainly hasn’t gone back to AimPoint.

But AimPoint still has plenty of believers, and on behalf of all of them, Collin Morikawa has a perfect response to Glover’s stance. In a recent interview, he took a friendly jab at the six-time Tour winner. “I don’t have anything against Lucas,” Morikawa said. “But if we’re banning Aimpoint, we should ban long putters.” Ouch.

Morikawa didn’t deny that AimPoint adds a few extra seconds to play, but he had a simple fix—just hold slow players accountable, rather than banning techniques. “I think players need to be aware if they’re slow enough, right? Like, let people know who is slow, and do something about it, right?”

When asked specifically if he had any issues with the long putter, Morikawa said, “I’m just throwing shade back… I’m protecting my AimPoint guys, right? There’s guys that long putt and have AimPoint. I don’t have any beef. I don’t have anything wrong with putting like that, I just had to protect my AimPoint guys.” 

Makes sense, doesn’t it? But here’s the thing—when players rely on a certain method, they’ll naturally defend it. But at the heart of this debate is a bigger issue—the pace of play. Glover thinks AimPoint is slowing things down, but Morikawa sees it as a player-responsibility problem. Either way, slow play remains one of the biggest frustrations in professional golf. So, what’s actually being done about it?

How is the PGA Tour’s pace of play being handled?

So far there has been no responsive action from Jay Monahan or Co that has helped slow play. While the PGA Tour drags its feet, the Saudi-backed LIV Golf wasted no time flexing on social media about how smooth and fast their rounds were. To be fair, their format naturally speeds things up—54 players, shotgun start, no waiting around. But for fans used to watching PGA Tour rounds drag on for hours, seeing a tournament move at a decent pace? Yeah, that was refreshing.

Slow play has been an issue for years, and while certain players are repeat offenders, the real problem? Nothing ever gets done about it. The USGA recommends players take 40 seconds per shot (50 if they’re first to hit), but there’s no actual rule forcing them to stick to that. Which is why we get rounds that seem to last forever.

But the worst part here is that the PGA Tour can’t afford to lose momentum right now. Viewership is already dropping. The final round of The American Express? Less than half the audience from last year. Meanwhile, both LIV Golf and Tiger Woods’ TGL are stepping up the competition. The Tour is trying to address the issue—field sizes will shrink in 2026, which should help a little. But it’s not going to magically fix everything.

At least they’re finally admitting that fans aren’t happy. On January 29, they told the media they’ve heard the complaints and are planning to test some rule changes to improve the pace of play (and the overall broadcast experience).

It’s a step in the right direction—but will it actually make a difference? At this rate, they better figure it out fast. Because while the PGA Tour keeps dragging, fans (and sponsors) might just start looking elsewhere.