COLIN Montgomerie yesterday urged Scotland’s golfers to follow in his footsteps and become Ryder Cup stars.
Europe’s captain admitted he would be deeply disappointed if there wasn’t one Scot in his 12-man team at Celtic Manor next year – as was the case in Nick Faldo’s defeated side last season. Monty has long bemoaned the lack of emerging talent from the home of golf and the stats back him up. No Scot has won on the European Tour this year and we don’t have a single player in the world top 100. In fact, the highest-ranking Scot is Gary Orr who sits an embarrassing 139th. And a spot such as that is not going to get anywhere near the Ryder Cup team. Monty said: “Let’s hope we can have some Scottish involvement down inWales.
“Right now, there is improvement, people contending for titles and I look forward to Scots winning through the qualifying period so we can have some in our team.