Padraig: If Belly Putter Came Along Today, "Would Not Pass"

Mark Tallentire reporting from Lytham, quoting Padraig Harrington after Sunday's Open Championship final round.

"Clearly, in the rules, the fact is, if somebody invented the belly putter tomorrow, it would not pass. There's no way they would let it through," the three-times major winner said. "The only reason it got through is the people that used it 20 years ago were coming to the end of their careers and people were sympathetic and didn't want to finish Bernhard Langer's career by telling him you can't hold it like this, you can't attach it to your arm."