Captain's role still appeals to Monty
Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie has again hinted he wants to eventually become Ryder Cup captain.
The name of the 42-year-old Scot, who on Sunday topped the European money list for a record eighth time after a gap of six years, has already been linked to the job in 2010 at Celtic Manor in Wales and back in March he expressed an interest.
Ian Woosnam will lead the side at the K Club near Dublin next year with Nick Faldo given the honours for the 2008 event at Valhalla in Kentucky.
Montgomerie, who needed a wild card from captain Bernard Langer to play last year but ended up holing the winning putt in the record victory on American soil, is already assured of a place in the team next September after his most successful season since 1999
And when his Ryder Cup playing days are over he wants to continue to have an input.
“Not many improve in their 40s so hopefully I can play at least one more Ryder Cup and we will see what happens from there,” he said.
“I hope I can help the team in other ways.”
Montgomerie’s comeback after his much-publicised off-course troubles, notably his divorce from wife Eimear, is something of a personal triumph and after several years in the doldrums he is happy again.
“I am more relaxed, I am enjoying my life more than before and it (the Order of Merit win) proved it,” he told Radio Five Live.
“I don’t think you can concentrate for any length of time if anything is bothering you and it was with me.
“If you make a bogey the whole world falls on your shoulders and if you make bogies you tend to think negatively.
“I made a conscious effort to think about other things when I did make a mistake. It is not always the technique that suffers, it is the emotional strain of it.”
