Monty’s token gesture badly thought-out

CONSIDERING he had just run up a triple bogey at the ninth, his 18th, Colin Montgomerie was in uncommonly good humour after yesterday’s opening round in the British Masters.

While Monty would love to see the highly favourable drop that he gave himself in the Indonesia Open disappear from the headlines, it simply won’t do so.

The European Tour’s tournament committee, of which he himself is a member, expressed their “dissatisfaction” at what happened and the Scot himself agrees with the stance that chairman Jamie Spence and his colleagues have taken.