Despite the controversies and debates, the AimPoint putting method has become a common sight on the PGA Tour. Many of the PGA Tour’s pros, including Collin Morikawa, Adam Scott, Keegan Bradley, Justin Rose, and Viktor Hovland, use it. They’ve claimed that it has helped them improve their putting. But while it looks like a useful read to golfers, the story is quite different for fans watching on TV. For them, it just adds to the slow pace of play. In fact, PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council chairman Lucas Glover also called out the pros who use this method and take a long time to putt.

“I still don’t do it,” Glover said when Trey Wingo asked him about the AimPoint putting method. “There’s this whole thing about doing it and then actually starting it, where you’re looking at, [which is what] a lot of people can’t do. But it’s still frustrating out here, or I see it on TV when it’s pretty sluggish.” Glover has previously called for AimPoint to be banned. He has also called it rude for players to walk on others’ putting lines for the sake of judging your own line. Turns out, he was confronted by players who used the method after he made those comments.

“When I made those comments, I had a couple of guys the next week in Phoenix come up to me and go, ‘Hey, man, you talking about me?’ I said, ‘No, I’m not talking about anybody that does it quickly.’ I said, ‘By the way, that’s not why you’re a great putter. You’re a great putter because you’re starting it where you’re looking.’ But, you know, I see these people stepping all over the green and each other’s lines from two feet, and it’s very frustrating.”

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Glover’s comments on AimPoint have been blunt and consistent. On a SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio episode, he said that the method has not statistically helped anyone make more putts.

“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,” he added.

However, when his peers who used the method felt offended by his comments, he acknowledged that many golfers are doing it efficiently. The real issue for him is the slow pace of play. So, when calling out the AimPoint method, he gave some solutions to improve pace of play, which include:

• Getting rid of honorary observers walking inside the ropes
• Giving a FedExCup points penalty
• Stopping sign bearers
• Adding drop circles near obstructions

Lucas Glover isn’t the only one who feels that way. Jim Nantz has supported his views. The golf analyst said that watching professionals perform the technique drives him “crazy.” Fans also support his views because, ultimately, it makes the game boring. In fact, viewers have bashed and criticized many professionals for using AimPoint.

The comments become more significant considering Glover is now the chairman of the PGA Tour’s Player Advisory Council. His colleague and fellow member of the council, Adam Scott, uses AimPoint as well and has been a vocal advocate of it.

After declining a seat on the Players Advisory Council for several years, Lucas Glover ran for the role of chairman to help bring about changes that address such problems. He felt he could bring about more change from within than by just speaking about it on his SiriusXM Radio show.

However, although he previously asked for a ban on AimPoint, he still doesn’t want to stop anyone from doing it.

“We’re all out here trying to do the same thing, and that’s get the ball in the hole quickly, as quickly as possible. And if that helps people, great. I mean, it’s not for me to tell them they can or cannot do it, but it is up to the players to monitor our pace sometimes. And that’s where I got frustrated a couple of years ago with those comments, is just sometimes takes so long for somebody to get ready to hit it,” he added.

Lucas Glover’s latest remarks reinforce that his biggest concern has never been AimPoint alone but the culture of slow play that he believes continues to affect the PGA Tour.