Monty props up Euro flops

IRONIC, wasn’t it, that when a couple of Europeans finally got into the shake-up for a major, it should have been two of the older generation that did so.

And as Tiger Woods turned up the temperature coming down the stretch at St Andrews on Sunday, neither Colin Montgomerie nor Jose-Maria Olazabal were well and truly roasted.

Both played extremely well and you could hardly argue with Montgomerie when he claimed "it is no disgrace to be beaten by the best player of our generation."

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