[Fourputt]

Way I see it, if you hit it the ball with a putter it's a putt. If you hit it with anything else, regardless of where the ball lies, it's not a putt.

Statistically the ball has to lie on the putting green for the stroke to count as a putt, but I still call it a "fringe putt" if I stroke it with the putter from off the green. I don't include it in my putting stats though. I don't see how it can be a chip or a pitch if I use a putter to play the stroke, but no stats analysis I ever saw would consider it a putt either. If you putt your ball from a point on the putting surface to any point off the putting surface, it's still a putt, but the next stroke is not, no matter what club you hit it with.