They might, for example, have to disqualify from club tournaments loyal members who continue to anchor putt in defiance of the ban.
And the Scot repaid the German's faith by memorably sinking the winning putt in Detroit as the USA suffered their heaviest-ever Ryder Cup defeat.
He narrowly missed a 24-foot eagle putt in front of a surging gallery on the 18th after reaching the par 5 in two shots.
Warren, from Cambuslang, holed the winning putt in the Walker Cup at Sea Island in 2001 but has struggled to establish himself since turning pro.
Montgomerie also has an enviable Ryder Cup record as a player, having never lost a singles match, and he sunk the winning putt in the 2004 match.
"I thought about it a little bit more like before I hit that first putt in the playoff, '" Kerr said of her desire to win with her father watching.
The 25-year-old Warren, who holed the winning putt in the 2001 Walker Cup, spent six hours hitting balls with coach Bob Torrance on Monday, and it paid instant dividends with a bogey-free round.
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"I should have knocked that putt in 99 times out of 100, " said Furyk, also beaten in a play-off in this event, who has now finished second three times on the tour this season.
McGinley, who sank the winning putt in the 2002 Ryder Cup, started having knee problems as a 19-year-old when he broke his left knee-cap playing gaelic football, an injury that turned him towards golf.
With a par putt in sudden death play of the final round of the 2012 Masters Tournament, Watson not only won his first major championship, but opened up the floodgates for endorsers seeking to partner with him.
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And his team-mate Dyson, who won the Asian Tour Order of Merit in 2000, also failed to qualify after coming 58th on 12-under alongside Ireland's Walton, the man who holed the winning putt in the Oak Hill Ryder Cup.
His 60 gave him the clubhouse lead, the final putt rolling in as the hooter sounded to call play to a halt due to fading light, leaving his rivals to return on Sunday morning to complete third-round play.
Croquet-style putting, in which a player straddles the line of a putt, was nixed in 1968, much to Sam Snead's dismay.
Then came a steady stream of pars until rolling in that long putt at No. 12.
Moments later, Stanford rolled in an eagle putt on the par-5 15th to also get to minus 10.
Woods, despite his win at Bay Hill two weeks ago, ranks a miserable 134th on Tour in three-putt avoidance.
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That, however, is less of a concern for US Open champion McDowell, who hit the winning putt for Europe on Monday in Wales.
Then on the final hole he rolled in a birdie putt to finish on nine-under and claim the tournament by two clear strokes.
Angela Stanford also had a share of third until the final hole, when she lipped out a short par putt for her first bogey in a closing 69.
Woods hit a fairway metal off the pine needles and into a bunker, blasted out to 10 feet and rolled in the birdie putt to briefly take the lead.
Last year at Crans-sur-Sierre he led by four shots going into the final round but missed a short putt for victory and lost in a play-off to Frenchman Jean-Francois Lucquin.
Hunter Mahan's tee shot on the 15th hole got stuck high up in a tree, leading to double bogey, but then he rolled in an eagle putt from off the 16th green.
That gave Londoner Wall a chance to tie for second and he did it in dramatic fashion with a 35-foot birdie putt - one which qualifies him for the Open at Hoylake in two weeks' time.
Spaniard Lara closed with a 74 while England's Wall rolled in a swinging birdie putt on the 18th for a 73.
If I didn't three-putt two times and lay up in a bunker my score would have been nearer where it should have been.
Graeme McDowell, who holed the winning putt at Celtic Manor, Wales in 2010, believes the captain's role is something akin to a glorified cheerleader.
Thomas Bjorn was left kicking himself after missing from five feet on the 18th - a putt which would have put him in the play-off too.
"I was just kind of plugging along out there and then all of a sudden, made a nice putt at 9, chip-in at 10, good up-and-down at 11, " he said.
Using the former, players smooth a path from near their ball to the hole, and place their ball in the path to putt, making sure that the distance to the hole is the same as from their original lie.
Stallings was trying to tap in a 2-foot putt when a gust blew his ball 8 feet away.
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