Adam Scott is abandoning his switch to a short putter for next week's Masters, returning to the soon-to-be-banned, anchored style he won the 2013 green jacket with.
Scott confirmed to AAP via a brief email he plans to revert to his trusty long-handled putter at Augusta National after using a short putter for his first three tournaments of 2015 with mixed results.
The Queenslander putted exceptionally in his opening tournament, the WGC-Cadillac Championship where he tied fourth, but struggled on the greens at the Valspar Championship, missing a cut for the first time in almost three years, and at the Arnold Palmer Invitational where he tied 35th.
The world No.6 then spent last week and early this week in practice at Augusta before making his decision.
"Putting with a longer putter is maybe the smarter thing to do (at Augusta)," Scott told pgatour.com when still undecided after his final round at Bay Hill.
"It's all about the lag putting. It's such a difference in weight of club and stroke and everything. I'm just trying to figure it all out."
Two years ago, Scott made a clutch long birdie putt on the 72nd hole and another on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff when he buried decades of heartache for countrymen by becoming the first Australian to win the Masters.
While he will be forced to change putting methods in 2016 when the ban on anchored putting strokes comes in, Scott has decided to go with the method he's used over the last four years while he still can.
It's a method he has used to not only win the Masters but also finish inside the top-15 an incredible 13 times in the last 16 majors.
Scott is currently ranked 184th on the US tour in strokes gained putting this season, well down from his 55th last year.
He is ranked first in greens in regulation percentage highlighting the need to get the flat stick working to take advantage of his precision iron play.
Scott is in no doubt his recent run of results at Augusta, where he has been no worse than a tie for 18th since 2010, will ensure he takes confidence into the event.
"There is plenty to take confidence," Scott told AAP.
"I am going back as a previous champion for the rest of my life and I have played the course really well over the last five years now."
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