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
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.
golf holes should
That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.
golf balls holes
I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.
sleep golf thinking
I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.
career faster last monitor next putt recorded victory
I said my next victory would be the most important of my career and it is. A heart-rate monitor at the last putt would have recorded it much faster than usual.
best course played today
He played the best course today in this weather.
assure bloody easy pressures rounds score
You come here with so many pressures that to score nine-under after two rounds is some result, ... I made it look easy out there but it wasn't, I can assure you. In fact, it was bloody hard.
crucial direction gave opposite picked
If I hadn't been picked I would not be here now, ... It was crucial for my career. It was going in the opposite direction and he gave me the opportunity.
came continued five four greens hit hole last playing second singapore week
I came here playing well, I was second in Singapore last week and I've continued to do so. If I hit the fairways and I hit the greens then all I have to do is hole four or five putts.