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Article: THE INTERVIEW COLIN MONTGOMERIE: Comfortably the best Content with his lot, thrilled by competition, Europe's finest is happy to take on the world. By Paul Trow
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1999
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TO SUGGEST that the man poised to become Europe's No 1 golfer for
a seventh successive season has only just reached the threshold of
stardom seems faintly odd. But Colin Montgomerie, known to millions
as Monty, is no conventional British hero.
At the age of 36, he could never be typecast as a rebel or pin-up
boy. Yet at a barren time for the national football, rugby and
cricket teams, this burly Scot with a golf swing like silk and the
touch of an angel has become a beacon, if not quite an icon, for the
sporting public.
Forget his six tournament victories this season, the latest a
fortnight ago in the World Match Play Championship - such successes
have become routine. But his bulldog ...