Harrington to trial belly putter months after wishing them to be banned

Less than a year after wishing anchored putters would swiftly be banned, three-time major winner Padraig Harrington has said he intends to use one in the Wells Fargo Championship which starts today.

After the Open Championship at Lytham last year, which was won by Ernie Els using a belly putter, Harrington said: “I suspect that they (the R&A) are going to ban them. That’s more or less the consensus; they’re going to have a two-year grace (period) a bit like the grooves.