What will Bernie Langer do?
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/golf/article25626547.html
As a matter of fact, I spoke with someone within the last couple of weeks who is aware of what Langer is working on. He quoted Langer as saying that he will most likely go back to a conventional putter, but he is also experimenting with side saddle to see if it works for him.
I think the issue for a guy like that, or any pro for that matter, is that their margins are so small that learning to putt facing the hole after a lifetime of standing to the side is a much different undertaking than it is for somebody like me. Randy Haag, a top senior amateur from CA who has putted this way for many years at the highest levels of amateur golf, estimates that it would take professional players a full year to gain sufficient distance control to putt well enough to play at that level. Really, a year isn't that long UNLESS you are talking about playing for a living...
But I think you'll see somebody, or several, on some tour putting sidesaddle next year.
The funny thing about it is that when somebody asks me why I am putting sidesaddle, I can give them at least three answers that make sense to anybody: It's the way you would roll a ball to a spot, you're looking down the line with both eyes, and it's a single lever action that is VERY simple.
But when I turn it around and ask them why THEY are putting the way that they do, they look at me like I've lost my mind. And then have no answer, except that that's just the way you putt...