Belly Putterers: "Imagine using a wooden driver if you'd never used one before?"

The golf.com Confidential blabbed on way too long and with nothing to add on Tommy Gainey's first win, but mercifully salvaged this week's edition with a good back-and-forth on the seemingly inevitable anchoring band and some fine points. Including these:

Bamberger: The ones who basically became golfers with the belly will have a hard time. Imagine using a wooden driver if you'd never used one before? No problem at all for those who won with it. Like Bob Gibson's era, when they lowered the mound.

Dusek: I echo Micheal's thoughts and believe that golfers who have used a belly putter for a long time -- like Brendon Steele who started using one in college -- will have a tougher time, but these guys are all pros and they'll find a way to putt. It will just take some a longer time than other and a few guys will be more successful than others. That's sports. As for thinking less of guys who used a belly to win a major ... no way. They're major winners. Period.

Herre: The guys who anchor will adapt and innovate. If there's no limit to the length of a putter -- and it would be a major oversight if there isn't -- the sky's the limit as to what styles could be concocted. Just today I saw an infomercial on sidesaddle, non-anchored belly putting, and it seemed to make sense (both eyes looking directly at the hole).

Actually Jim, it wasn't an infomercial but a WSJ story that'll pop up on the Press Tent blog sometime this week!

Anyway, the last word goes to Van Cynical, bless his heart: