Adam Scott has shown he's carrying no baggage with golf officialdom, sending one of his long putters as a cheeky momento to one of the key proponents of this year's rule change.
Peter Dawson was chief executive of golf's rules authority the Royal & Ancient when they proposed a ban on the anchoring of putters against the body.
It effectively outlaws the use of long putters, and Scott was one of the most high-profile of those affected.
Scott still has a collection of long putters that he used over the last five years.
Some he keeps at his home in the Bahamas, a few others he keeps in Australia.
And one was a playful gift for the man largely responsible for Scott having to abandon the club.
"I actually sent one to Peter Dawson for his retirement," Scott said on Thursday at the US PGA Tour's Honda Classic in Florida.
Scott said he can't recall the note he attached to the retirement gift, though he remembers what Dawson wrote back to him.
"He said he greatly appreciated the gesture," Scott said with a smile. "He said he'd put it with all the other obsolete clubs."
Dawson retired as the Royal & Ancient boss last year but the rule came into effect on January 1 this year.
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