After a solid first week with the short putter and a more traditional putting stroke, Adam Scott has struggled.
In his last six PGA Tour rounds between the Valspar Championship -- where Scott missed his first cut, ending a streak of 45 made cuts -- and the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Scott has lost 9.3 shots to the field with the flatstick. That's not good. That's on the heels of gaining 3.1 strokes on the field at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral, where he first put the traditional-length putter into play.
The bad results from Innisbrook and Bay Hill have Scott considering a change back to the broomstick and anchored stroke one last time at Augusta National in two weeks.
"Putting with a longer putter is maybe the smarter thing to do," Scott said Sunday at Bay Hill, where he finished T-35 after having a win in his hands a year ago. "I don't know. It's all about the lag putting. It's such a difference in weight of club and stroke and everything. I'm just trying to figure it all out."
The anchored putting stroke will become illegal on Jan. 1, 2016, so Scott will have to make a permanent transition soon enough. However, Scott intends to make the most of one last crack at the Masters with the long putter.
"It's not exactly where I want to be, but it doesn't matter when it comes to the Masters," said the 2013 Masters champ. "I've got two weeks and a really clear idea of what to work on."
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