Pace of play has been a major discussion among the professional ranks and fans alike to begin 2025, spanning multiple tours and numerous events. That conversation has branched out to include numerous topics, one of those being AimPoint.
A couple PGA Tour pros even went back and forth about AimPoint and whether it should be banned. Ever since it became popular among the pros, fans haven’t missed a chance to call out players who use it and slow down pace of play for their group.
And over the weekend, a screenshot of an LPGA player using it sent social media into a firestorm.
A Lim Kim had a birdie attempt on the par-3 fourth hole Saturday during the third round of the Honda LPGA Thailand, and she struck a solid putt that ran a little more than a foot past the hole, leaving it in tap-in range. She walked up to her ball, but before hitting it, did her AimPoint routine to feel the slope of the green, and the screenshot speaks for itself.
Kim made the putt, and she finished sixth for the week at 17 under. She won the LPGA’s season opener earlier this month in Florida. But the AimPoint routine over the short putt drew plenty of reactions from social media.
Now imagine a tournament full of 15 year olds doing this.
— Daniel Butler (@68shooter) February 23, 2025
I would like someone affiliated with Aimpoint to tell me exactly what this is doing for the golfer in this photo.
— Ben Hogan 1953 (@TinCup2020) February 23, 2025
It’s difficult to defend how this looks. It’s understandable that pros want to be comfortable over every shot because of how big a difference one stroke can make when the check hits the bank account, but these responses are just a small fraction of what fans had to say.
Now, as Fried Egg’s Meg Adkins points out in the video below, the move looks worse than it actually was. Right before the video cuts to the next shot, Kim can be seen stepping out of her AimPoint routine and preparing to tap the putt in.
I’m anti-AimPoint. It’s a pace of play nightmare and it needs to go. That being said, watch the video and you can see A Lim step off to tap it in almost immediately before the video cuts away. Yes, it looks ridiculous, but there are far more egregious AimPoint examples out there https://t.co/RqEowsijg6 pic.twitter.com/BYCXgGPKWw
— Meg Adkins (@megadkins_TFE) February 23, 2025
Two things can be true: AimPoint seems a bit unnecessary in this moment, and it also wasn’t as bad as a single screenshot made it out to be. Nevertheless, in the age of social media, everyone is able to share their opinions, and there were plenty when it came to Kim’s tap-in.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LPGA pro uses AimPoint before tap-in putt, social mediau erupts
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