Colin Montgomerie
Colin Montgomerie
Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBEis a Scottish professional golfer. He has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999. He has won 31 European Tour events, the most of any British player, placing him fourth on the all-time list of golfers with most European Tour victories...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth23 June 1963
british coming enjoyed forward looked open past playing positive wind
I've never really enjoyed the wind in the past but I had looked forward to coming back and playing St Andrews after the positive British Open I had.
dramatic five seven start tough
It was tough to start five behind, ... I said to myself if I could get two back in the first five, I could do this. I got two back after six, and seven was a dramatic change.
I used to say two. I'm getting older.
start
I used to say I'm here to win. Now I say I'd like to win. But I have to start winning.
golfer unique watching
We are watching here a unique golfer on a unique golf course.
confident official rules wrong
I was pretty confident I had done nothing wrong but called the rules official and he told me it was OK,
missed
Then I wasn't concentrating on what I was doing and missed the putt.
dark extremely putt
It was getting very, very dark out there and it made that putt extremely difficult,
taken golf levels
McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.
good-luck lasts hot
He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.
couple winning america
There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.
golf thinking guilt
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
comfort events holes
I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.
moving golf elephants
It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.