And he won the Order of Merit a record eight times.
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Sobel: As the world’s 36th-ranked player, Andy Sullivan is hardly an unknown commodity, but he isn’t exactly at the top of anyone’s list, either. I think that this championship now stands on its own as the one to win. A World Golf Hall of Fame member. Five times a runner-up in majors.
When you win The Open, they present you the Claret Jug while announcing you as the “champion golfer of the year”.
Colin Montgomerie is 53 now, but his roots are very much still here at Royal Troon, where his father was the longtime club secretary.
While addressing the media on Monday, Monty said the house he grew up in is so close, he “could really throw a ball from here to the house”. I’ve got to try to get better and move on. I have expressed my regret to Brittany personally and explained that in the heat of the moment, I became nervous and made these mistakes. The 22-year-old former world No 1 cited “concerns about health problems” as his reason for deciding against travelling to Rio de Janeiro. “But things like this, you can’t win them all, and that’s just the way of life”.
Montgomerie said his goal for the week is simply to walk down the 18th fairway on Sunday, yet deep down there’s a sense that he thinks he could push the younger generation this week.
“We have a pretty awesome incentive at the end of the year in the FedEx Cup (with a $10 million winner’s bonus) and then a week later is the Ryder Cup”.
“I kind of parted ways emotionally with it at home, so once I got to the formalities of it, it really wasn’t that hard but it was bittersweet”, he said. In fact, having finished T-44, T-36 and T-4 in his three British Open appearances, the soon-to-be 23-year-old (in 15 days) is convinced that this links stuff might actually reward him more favorably than the style of golf he played every other week of the year.
“I won the U.S. Open at Oakmont in ’73 and Tom Weiskopf after two rounds really spread open the field in really tough, rainy conditions”.
Montgomerie had 10 top-10 finishes in major championships, but just two at The Open, his best a runner-up finish to Tiger Woods in 2005 at St. Andrews.
Bet you didn’t see Phil Mickelson’s win coming the next year at Muirfield, did you?
The British Open golf starts on Thursday and the betting is again wide open when it comes to trying to predict a victor of the only major outside the United States. Then when I watch these guys competing on the golf course. “Last year was last year, and now we’re moving on and shifting on mentally and certainly excited for the week”.
Among other things, Rajat Mittal and his cohort reported that a headwind hurts more than a tailwind helps and that the effects of wind are not linear, that shots with different ball flights are affected differently. Probably. But he’s found himself with another shot at major glory in a place he knows well. He has been fighting his swing for a while but told NBC/Golf Channel reporter Mark Rolfing on Monday that he feels good about it “for the first time in a long time”.
“We got in yesterday, and I was going to play a practice round”. “The only difference possibly is length”.
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“Even though you want to take them on and hit that heroic shot and turn out to be the victor, sometimes it’s just not the right time”.
