What do you do when your putting stroke abandons you and threatens your livelihood on the PGA Tour? For Lucas Glover, the answer wasn’t pretty—it was desperate. The 45-year-old had battled the yips for over a decade, missing 24 putts from three feet and in during the 2020-21 season alone. By 2023, he ranked 179th in Strokes Gained: Putting. His career was circling the drain.

Recently, on “The Truth About the Long Putter” YouTube episode, Glover revealed exactly how he pulled off one of golf’s most remarkable putting transformations. His solution? A phone call to L.A.B. Golf with one audacious request that changed everything.

“Got my manager in touch with Lab Golf and said, ‘Just send me Adam’s putter,'” Glover explained on the podcast. When they asked about specs, his response was blunt: “No, no, no, no specs. I don’t want to know anything. Just send me Adam’s putter.” He wanted Adam Scott’s exact setup—a 45-inch broomstick putter with a 79.5-degree lie angle. No modifications. No custom fitting. Just straight copying.

The long putters arrived before the left-handed ones he’d also ordered. So Glover spent two weeks in his garage with nothing but a mirror and YouTube videos of Scott. “I just tried to stand there like Adam, honestly,” he admitted. “I didn’t know any better. I didn’t want to know anything. I just wanted to kind of figure it out and make it look like Adam cuz his looked really good.”

The approach sounds absurd for a PGA Tour professional. But Glover had tried everything—belly putters, arm locks, even putting left-handed briefly. Nothing worked. The yips had turned short putts into full-blown panic attacks. Meanwhile, Glover credited working with Jason Kuhn—a former Navy SEAL who understood performance anxiety—as crucial to rewiring his mental approach.

The long putter provided the final breakthrough. At his first event with Scott’s setup, Glover finished T4 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, ranking 5th in Strokes Gained: Putting. Three weeks later, he won the Wyndham Championship. The following week? He won again at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in a playoff.

Adam Scott became the blueprint for desperate putters

Adam Scott’s relationship with the long putter started from similar desperation. In 2009 and 2010, he ranked 180th and 186th, respectively, in Strokes Gained: Putting—basically dead last among Tour players. After losing 7.5 strokes on the greens in just two rounds at the 2011 Sony Hawaiian Open, Scott switched to a 49-inch Scotty Cameron Futura X prototype.

The transformation was immediate. Scott improved by approximately one stroke per round on the greens. Then came the crowning achievement—his 2013 Masters victory, where he became the first Australian to slip on the Green Jacket. That iconic win cemented the long putter as a legitimate weapon, not a gimmick.

Scott’s technique became the gold standard because of its visual simplicity. His shoulder-driven stroke minimizes hand manipulation. His split grip—left hand hovering near the chest, right hand extending down—creates stability. Most importantly, his philosophy prioritizes alignment over mechanics. “I honestly don’t work on my stroke,” Scott admitted. “I work on calibrating every day on a straight putt, lining the putter up straight.”

Multiple players have explicitly asked L.A.B. Golf to copy Scott’s specs. Byeong Hun An, Si Woo Kim, Will Zalatoris, and Akshay Bhatia all followed the same path. The long putter has experienced a quiet resurgence, with approximately 10-15 Tour players now employing the method. After the 2016 anchoring ban nearly killed the trend, players like Scott developed non-anchored techniques that comply with the rules while maintaining the putter’s advantages.

For Glover, copying Scott’s setup rescued a career that seemed finished. Sometimes the best solution isn’t original—it’s borrowed from someone who figured it out first.