Realising the winner’s mentality

Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood are two of Europe’s greatest golfers of all time.

Between them, they have won 79 professional tournaments worldwide and have led Europe to many famous victories in the Ryder Cup. They have scaled the heights but for all their efforts, neither has won a WGC event, much less a major championship.

Is it that they just don’t quite have the right combination of talent, heart, mind and weapons to win a major championship? Perhaps we will never know. For Montgomerie, at 49, his quest for a major championship is now virtually over but for Westwood, who turns 40 later this month, it is now or never.