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All this belly-aching, but a ban is still far off

'If it wasnae for yer Bellies, where wud ye be?" as Billy Connolly might have warbled if he was asked to comment on the current issues swirling around in golf.

For Peter Dawson, the 'Big Yin' at the Royal & Ancient, the recent rumblings regarding the belly putter must have prompted the odd Connolly-esque expletive as he mulled over the topic during a quiet afternoon in his sumptuous St Andrews HQ.