Montgomerie issues warning on Euro record

COLIN MONTGOMERIE offered a word of warning to anybody wanting to break his most cherished record of seven successive European Order of Merit titles.

"One, good luck to them. Two, be very careful," said Montgomerie on the eve of the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond. "If anybody wants to try to break it, I suggest they have a chat with me - and I'll tell them not to bother.

"What I achieved in those infamous seven years broke me and aided breaking a marriage. I wish in a way that Sam (Torrance) had actually beaten me in 1995."