The PGA Tour have one major issue which needs to be addressed ahead of the 2026 season, and something that Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood do regularly should be right under the spotlight.

Rose and his fellow Englishman Fleetwood are not only two of the best players on the PGA Tour, but they are also two of the most popular.

As a result, the European Ryder Cup duo are hugely influential figures, especially to younger fans who watch the sport religiously.

With that in mind, their use of AimPoint could have serious implications for the sport moving forward.

In a world where time is precious and the younger generation want their thrills fast, slow play on the golf course has no place in the future of the sport.

AimPoint has been criticised by many PGA Tour players including Jason Day and Lucas Glover.

In fact, 2009 US Open champion Glover had some really strong words regarding AimPoint back in February.

“AimPoint statistically hasn’t helped anybody make more putts since its inception on the PGA Tour, statistics have borne that out.

“It’s also kind of rude to be up near the hole and stomping around, figuring out where the break is in your feet. It needs to be banned. It takes forever.“

Two reasons why AimPoint must be banned by the PGA Tour

Slow play is an issue that has plagued the PGA Tour throughout the entire 2025 season.

The PGA Tour have been urged to start docking players shots if they fall foul of the pace of play guidelines, rather than simply fining them.

The problem with that is the fact that it’s extremely difficult to single out the players who are causing the hold-ups.

So perhaps a better way to go would be to ban something that has clearly had a negative impact on the pace of play on the PGA Tour.

AimPoint was invented by Mark Sweeney in 2004 and Scott McCarron was the first player to put it into action during a tournament in 2005.

Since then, many big names have followed suit including Rose, Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley and Viktor Hovland.

Anyone who watches professional golf on their TVs will be aware just how tedious it is to see the best players in the world putting AimPoint into practice.

Even Collin Morikawa – a fierce advocate of AimPoint – admitted that the green-reading method takes more time than the traditional way of reading putts, if it is not used correctly.

He said: “Look, AimPoint does take longer if you’re not doing it properly, right, if you’re not doing it when other players are reading their putts. I think there’s a respect issue. I think some players might get a little bit too close to the hole and I get that.“

Those who use the method often defend it by suggesting it takes no longer than reading a putt with your eyes.

That’s simply not the case though.

For instance, Glover is someone who sees AimPoint up close and personal every single week, so he obviously knows what he’s talking about.

Not only is it a time-consuming method, but it’s also an impolite practice, considering the footfall that occurs in and around the hole.

Players straddling their lines, especially when reading short putts, is quite simply unacceptable, considering the damage they could be causing around the hole.

That said, it goes without saying that the way that AimPoint affects the pace of play is the number one reason why it should be banned.

Keegan Bradley once took 46 seconds before hitting, and missing, a four-foot putt:

That’s just not acceptable.

AimPoint makes the skill of green-reading redundant

Another problem with the implementation of the AimPoint method is the fact that a certain kind of skill is being taken out of the game.

In fact, that was partly why in-depth green-reading books were banned by the PGA Tour back in 2022.

Nobody wants to see the game of golf reduced to a scientific, robotic sport do they? I certainly don’t.

The skill of reading greens correctly is something that should be sacred and AimPoint is making that skill somewhat redundant.

If the PGA Tour truly cares about the product they are offering, AimPoint should be banned from the start of the new season.

And if the powers that be do not want to ban AimPoint, then they absolutely must bring in stringent guidelines pertaining to how long players are allowed to spend when using the method on the greens.