Monty's midlife crisis as Scotland joins the pros

COLIN MONTGOMERIE plays his last tournament as a thirty-something this week - just as 20-year-old Zane Scotland arrives as the new kid on the European Tour block.

Montgomerie is 40 next Monday and can think of no better way to usher it in than with his first victory of the season in the Diageo Championship at Gleneagles on Sunday.

Scotland, meanwhile, plays his first-ever professional tournament after deciding not to wait for September's Walker Cup match against the United States.