Ian Poulter eager to test new putter at The Open Championship – Golf news
Ian Poulter is set to leave a strong impression at this week’s The Open Championship, as he believes that the change of putter will greatly help him in performing well in the tournament, as it did for him five years ago at Royal Birkdale.
The third major golf championship of the season is scheduled to be staged at the Muirfield Golf Club, featuring some of the best players from different parts of the world.
In 2008, Poulter made the same decision of converting to a new putter and it greatly helped him, as he finished second in the Open Championship, behind Padraig Harrington who successfully defended his title.
Usually, the Englishman is not known for making frequent changes in his putter. However, he was seen testing a number of different putters last week and finally chose one that he believes will provide him a good chance of tasting success in Muirfield, which
is known as one of the toughest courses in the world.
“Very infrequently. I think I've had two different putters in the bag in the last four years, maybe more,” he said when asked how often he had changed tools for the putting surface. “In 2008 I wasn't happy with my putter and I stood on the putting green
and burned two big footprint marks in the green at Birkdale trying to get comfortable because for one reason or another putts weren't going in.”
“It may be that is a visual thing of something you have got used to and you just want to look down at something fresh, then that is what it is,” he added.
Poulter enjoyed a decent start to his campaign this season, having recoded top-10 finishes in each of he first two starts he made. Thereafter, he failed to keep the momentum going and has not been able to finish better than 17th since February.
This time, he insists that he will try his best to finish on top of the leaderboard in Muirfield and secure the maiden major golf championship victory of his career. His second-place finish in 2008 The Open Championship was his best finish in majors.
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