‘I’ll take 65 anytime around here’

THE PAIR of them strolled contentedly off the final green together, arm in arm, as if it were a warm summer’s day and not a bitterly cold afternoon in September.

But that, of course, is a natural reaction when one member of the team has shot a seven under par 65 around the Old Course at St Andrews and the other has been privileged to watch it from the closest of quarters.

So the smiles on the faces of Colin Montgomerie and his film star amateur partner Michael Douglas told their own story.