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Despite a highly successful career during


which he spent almost 400 weeks in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings and won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles and 31 European Tour Events, Colin Montgomerie failed to win any of the big four golfing ‘Majors’ despite 71 attempts. It is therefore somewhat ironic that Monty,


cruelly dubbed ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ by the American media, recently successfully defended his Senior USA PGA Championship to go alongside the Senior US Open title he also holds. That makes three Majors since joining the Senior Tour in June 2013. Perhaps the feisty Scot has at long last


discovered the temperament to go with his undoubted ability, albeit a few years too late. Heartiest congratulations go to Miguel


Angel Jimenez who hit his second hole in one in successive weeks, and at the same time set a new European Tour record. The ebullient Spaniard carded his 10th ace on the tour, one more than Colin Montgomerie, the previous record holder. Sadly, there was no prize on offer on this


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occasion – this had already been scooped by Andrew Johnson who holed his tee shot during the first round of the BMW sponsored PGA Championship at Wentworth. The 26 year old Londoner won a BMW M4 worth around £50,000 – slightly more valuable than the 288 bottles of beer Jimenez took home with him aſter his hole in one at the Open de España a week earlier! According to Darren Clarke, the European


Captain for The 2016 Ryder Cup, to be held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska,


Minnesota, the build-up to the biennial tournament has already begun in earnest. This follows a liberal dose of barracking by American supporters aimed at Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter at the recent Players Championship, although Clarke insisted that both players were not unduly affected. ‘These guys are professionals and both are pretty thick-skinned. Home advantage is huge and it’s part and parcel of the Ryder Cup. But I think the likes of Sergio or Poults or whatever, have been on the tour too long to let something like that affect them.’ And Garcia seemed to be in agreement with


his captain when he told reporters at the post tournament press conference, ‘Obviously I’m all out for somebody cheering but others wishing bad things is never a great thing. But I’ve heard it all before. We’ve all heard it before. It is not something I can’t deal with or makes me want to quit. It’s not that big a deal.’ Barracking the opposition is fairly common on both sides of the pond, but I have to say that what gets under my skin are the inane shouts of ‘Get into the hole’ by American supporters, even when one of their team tees off on a par five. I find this almost as irritating as hearing Millwall fans tediously singing ‘No one likes us, we don’t care.’! Perhaps that’s a song the Americans could adopt? Each to his own, I suppose.


Happy Hacking! Mulligan MULLIGAN


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