Monty determined to look after number one

SPANIARDS Jose-Maria Olazabal and Sergio Garcia and the English pair Ian Poulter and Luke Donald are planning to crash the Colin Montgomerie-Michael Campbell shoot-out here at Valderrama.

However, Monty yesterday served notice he is determined nobody is going to prevent him winning the European Tour order of merit for the eighth time and the first since 1999.

Montgomerie is clearly back to the kind of form that made him such an irrepressible force throughout the 1990s as he coasted round Valderrama in four under par 66, making light of the inevitable pressure of defending his order of merit lead and at the same time rendering the task of his only rival, the New Zealander Michael Campbell, well nigh impossible.