Golf has been played for centuries.
At first, it was played with rocks and sticks.
As time went on, special balls and wooden clubs were invented to replace the sticks and rocks.
Then metals started replacing the wooden clubs, followed by hi tech graphite shafts and Titanium heads.
All the while, putting hasn't been touched by the technological revolution.
There is no doubt that a modern player can drive the ball substantially farther with a large Titanium head on the end of a graphite shaft than the same player could with a wooden shafted club and the ball of the day.
But that player could easily pick up the same putter somebody used during the wooden shafted days and still putt well with it now.
The putters of today are of higher quality and precision, but there is really nothing science can do to improve a putter.
The only technology that really applies to a putter is black paint and straight lines.
Forget about the long shafts and other crutches like the claw grip.
All you really need to putt well is a putter you can aim.
In the future golfers will start to realize that putting is nothing but a simple target game they have complicated with ineffective putting instruction that only serves to distract the golfer from the game at hand.
In the future, a perfect putting stroke will not seem necessary.
Golfers will know that if they are working on their putting stroke they are not working on their putting.
They will choose the game over the technique, and putt better because of it.
Golfers of the future will not have to practice their putting nearly as much to get very good at it.
They will have harnessed the natural instincts they use in other target games to make putting simple.