Montgomerie retains focus amid infidelity claims

RYDER CUP captain Colin Montgomerie insisted last night that new revelations about his private life would not have any effect on his Ryder Cup captaincy.

Montgomerie issued a statement after a tabloid newspaper ran a story saying he had been seeing a former girlfriend again for a while.

The newspaper claimed yesterday that the eight-time European number one, whose 14-year first marriage ended in divorce in 2004, had confessed to wife Gaynor that he had been having “a secret affair with his ex-lover Joanne Baldwin.”