Monty eyes right-hand men for Ryder tilt

COLIN Montgomerie may surprise us but it is difficult to believe he would include two people among his assistants at Celtic Manor next October who have never played in the Ryder Cup.

That’s just what his opposite number Corey Pavin has done. Paul Goydos has rarely been anything more than a journeyman on the US PGA Tour with the media machine unable to say much about him other than he is “a veteran well liked by his peers.”

At least Jeff Sluman won the 1988 US PGA Championship and has played in the President’s Cup, an event in which he has acted as vice captain on three occasions.