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If I use a putter from the fringe/even from the fairway to get on does it count toward my overall putt stroke count?

No. It is not a putt. Think of it this way...if you hit the same shot with any other club does it count as a putt? Putts are only from the putting surface.

Another slant - after a really good chip if you tap in with your chipping iron it is counted as a putt, even though you didn't use your putter.

yep

On the green = putt
Off the green is not on the green.

What if your buddy taps in your two-incher with the base of the flagstick. Is that a putt? ;)

David

Not a legal club.
2 stroke penalty

Your buddy shouldn't even be tapping in your putt for you anyway. Do your own dirty work, and no matter how tempting it is for your partners, tell them not to tap it in for you. Or, if it's an informal little game, whatever you wanna do goes, particularly with tap-ins. Just don't try to pull that in a tournament.

See this thingy?...;)...I was kidding!

D :)

at our club we have a group of heavy drinkers that call themselves the "3 putt club"
$1 for a 3 putt ....all of which goes on the bar at the end of the year .......handicaps range from 3-13 and we have small slow greens .so we aint talk millions of dollars ...
but ....they are ruthless ....putts from the fringe count as does using a putter to get under trees back into play way down a fairway somewhere .....

So, if I putt my ball off the green into the fringe, the next stroke is not a putt?
Is that called a "puttus interruptus"?

No, that is called "Puttus messed upus".

That's funny! Thanks a lot guys! Now the next time I'm trying to make a putt from the fringe I'll be thinking....."Is this puttus interruptus or puttus messed upus?" You guys are supposed to be helping my game...not giving me goofball putting thoughts! :confused: