Colin Montgomerie

Another great Colin Montgomerie non golfing moment to report!  This time the bould Scot is in the news for driving  900 miles overnight. To get a putter from his garage! Stung  by a Sunday 81 in the BMW PGA Championship – which included 80 putts and 39 crowd glares, Monty decided his flatstick was the problem and hopped in the car back to Perthshire to grab the spare. He returned after 13 hours on the road just in time to play the US Open qualy at Walton Heath, but putted poorly and failed to...Read Full Story

Colin Montgomerie has made a good decision by standing down as European Ryder Cup captain. Drama like this year comes infrequently and he knows how much grief he would have got for his selections if his team had gained just 1/2 a point less - the margins between genius and clod were narrow and, as he has said, outside his hands once play started (there is a case for saying that a Captain really proves his mettle in a close contest, others say that it was only close because of some of his...Read Full Story

BBC bosses were left with a dilemma and a ticking clock after Strictly celebrity Russell Grant turned badly on his ankle in training on Monday.  All seemed lost until Colin Montgomerie, the perfect match for Grant agreed to step in at the last minute to offer his services.  The director of programming at the BBC, an avid golf fan, had seen Montgomerie on the range at the Portugal Masters and figured he must be at a loose end. It now looks certain that the European Tour’s straightest batter...Read Full Story

ScotsmanMartin Dempster: Colin Montgomerie facing the pivotal month of a stellar careerScotsmanAs the 2011 Andalucia Open champion, Paul Lawrie is in the Fancourt field but how come Montgomerie is, too, when his last Tour triumph was the 2007 European Open at The K Club? Well, it's down to a special category that has opened the door for not only ...and moreRead Full Story

Portuguese police released a suspect today an issued an unreserved apology after an incident at the Portugal Masters.  The suspect, a marshal at the event, was arrested after he had earlier claimed that he had seen Colin Montgomerie on the practice range following his round.  The marshal had asked for backup, as the range had not been reinforced against a possible landslide.  Tour bosses dismissed the marshal’s requests claiming it was impossible for Montgomerie to be on a practice range, and...Read Full Story

Padraig Harrington took his Vivendi form into Tuesday's opening practice session at Celtic Manor.  "He's like a rookie today and has had three eagles already," Colin Montgomerie said. "He's playing the best golf of my team out there and I feel the criticism has been very unjustified.  He's a world player, he's won three major championships and the stature of the guy is second to none within our team.  He walked into Celtic Manor on Sunday as if he was a rookie, it was fantastic, and he was...Read Full Story

Colin Montgomerie’s chances of qualifying for the Open Championship for a 22nd successive year are looking promising after he shot a five-under par round of 67 on the opening day of the Scottish Open. The Scotsman needs a top-five finish this week at the tournament’s new venue of Castle Stuart to qualify for next week’s Open at Royal St. George’s. Monty had been looking in even better shape after teeing up on the 18th on minus 6, only for a poor drive to lead him to drop a shot at the last...Read Full Story

The golf world is in shock at the new that Colin Montgomerie could miss the British Open for the first time in 122 years but after having a think about it the golf world say it doesn’t really mind. Some people reading the list of Open qualifiers from Sunningdale on Monday would have seen Monty’s name on top of the leaderboard, but they would have been people standing on their head.  He actually came last. Montgomerie’s total of  15 over  just missed out on qualification by 21 shots. Had he...Read Full Story

INVERNESS, Scotland (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie's bid to snatch an 11th-hour British Open place next week got off to a promising start with a 67 at the Scottish Open on Thursday.But despite being only two strokes behind the early leaders, fellow Briton Lee Westwood and Chile's Mark Tullo, he was disappointed with his five-under-par return at Castle Stuart.An ugly bogey on the last and two dropped shots in his round canceled out an eagle on the second, his 11th hole.Montgomerie matched world...Read Full Story

A swarm of bees forced the cancellation of a college golf tournament in Texas yesterday.  The “B” tournament had to bee abandoned after a limb from a tree fell and exposing a beehive. Officials said approximately 70,000 bees had swarmed on the 18th green, but until PGA officials arrived to count them properly they could not confirm the numbers. UTA spokesman Gregg Elkin said neither a beekeeper nor a  photograph of Colin Montgomerie could be found at short notice to repel the insects. The...Read Full Story