Pace of playing has been an important discussion with both the professional ranks and fans to start with 2025, with several tours and countless events. That conversation is branched to record countless subjects, including a goal.
A few PGA Tour professionals even went back and forth over Aimpoint and whether it should be banned. Since it became popular with the professionals, fans have not missed a chance to call players who use it and to delay the pace of playing for their group.
And during the weekend, a screenshot of an LPGA player sent this used social media in a fire storm.
A Lim Kim had an attempt by Birdie on the par-3 fourth hole on Saturday during the third round of the Honda Lpga Thailand, and she hit a solid putt that ran a little more than a foot along the hole, so that it is in tap-in series remained. She walked to her ball, but before she hit it, she did her Airpoint -routine to feel the slope of the green, and the screenshot speaks for herself.
Kim made the putt and she finished sixth for the week at 17 below. She won the season opener of the LPGA earlier this month in Florida. But the Aimpoint routine over the short putt attracted many reactions from social media.
Now imagine a tournament of 15 -year -olds.
– Daniel Butler (@68shooter) February 23, 2025
I would like someone who is connected to Aimpoint, tells me exactly what this does for the golfer on this photo.
– Ben Hogan 1953 (@Tincup2020) February 23, 2025
It is difficult to defend what this looks like. It is understandable that during every shot, professionals want to be comfortable because of how big a difference can make one blow when the check comes on the bank account, but these answers are just a small fraction of what fans had to say.
As Fried Egg’s Meg Adkins indicates in the video below, the movement looks worse than it actually was. Just before the video cuts to the next recording, Kim can be seen steps out of her Aimpoint routine and prepares to tap the putt in it.
I am anti-aimpoint. It is a pace of playing nightmare and it must go. That said, watch the video and you can see a limit to tap it freely almost immediately before the video cuts away. Yes, it looks ridiculous, but there are many more serious examples of the Https://t.co/rqeowsijg6 target point pic.twitter.com/BycxGGPWWW
– Meg Adkins (@megadkins_tfe) February 23, 2025
Two things can be true: Aimpoint seems a bit superfluous at the moment, and it wasn’t as bad as a single screenshot that made it. Nevertheless, everyone can share his opinions in the age of social media, and there were enough when it came to Kim’s Tap-in.
This article originally appeared on Golf Week: LPGA Pro uses Aimpoint before tap-in Putt, Social Mediau eruptions
