PGA Tour golfer Collin Morikawa sparks war of words with former major winner

Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa says the PGA Tour should consider banning long putters as he offered his take on Lucas Glover's plan to combat slow play. 

Former U.S. Open champion Glover outlined an eight-point plan following the conclusion of the Farmers Insurance Open and American Express that saw golfers taking in excess of five hours to complete 18 holes. 

Glover argued that distance measuring devices should be permitted, every group should have a designated bunker raker, no honorary observers should be allowed within the ropes and sign bearers should be scrapped. 

The 45-year-old also slammed the use of AimPoint on the greens, saying the putting method 'hasn't helped anybody make more putts' since its inception. "It needs to be banned," he said. "It takes forever."

Morikawa - an AimPoint user - was asked about what Glover had to say before this week's Genesis Invitational. 

"I have nothing against Lucas," Morikawa said. "But if we're banning AimPoint I think we should ban long putters as well."

Glover switched to a long putter after suffering with the yips. 

He hit one of the greatest yips of all-time and worked with a Navy SEAL to overcome his putting woes. 

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Morikawa admitted AimPoint does take longer if you're 'not doing it properly'. 

The 28-year-old said golfers should be using it whilst their playing partners hit so as to speed things along. 

"I think there's a respect issue," he said.  

"I think some players might get a little bit too close to the hole and I get that. 

"When you get too close to the hole when someone else is putting, yeah, like I don't want my line and my putt to go over someone else's foot and their marks. 

"I mean, are you going to tell other players not to walk around the hole when we're picking up putts?"

He continued: "From my perspective, AimPoint has 1,000 per cent helped me. I listen to the announcers sometimes during play and they say why would you AimPoint this, this and that. 

"It gets a basis of how I read a putt and how I start my lines. It's just like reading something from behind the hole or behind the ball, that's how I'm getting my general read for that."

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Morikawa said there are times when players are using AimPoint in the wrong spots. 

He said: "I think players need to be aware if they're slow or not, right? 

"Like let people know who is slow and do something about it, right?"

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