Apr 15
2010Colin Montgomorie discounts player’s illform
Filed Under (Golf) by admin on 15-04-2010
Tagged Under : Colin Montgomorie, Montegomerie, Ryder Cup
Colin Montgomerie the captain of Ryder Cup did not attach any importance about the form of the leading players of Europe. Only Lee West wood and Ian Poulter are in the field in this competition while other players are not in the field against American. Again there is another big competition October’s Celtic manor after six months.
Ian Poulter is the winner of WGC- Accenture Match Play. Westwood who is the number one European player stood second in the Masters which happened at last week. According to the Corey Pavin who is the captain of America, these two are the key players of Montgomerie’s and the main reason behind the success of Europe in Wales.
But at Augusta, Phil Mickelson performed fantastic and claimed third jacket from Westwood. On the other hand after five months out of play tiger woods played good by securing a position at fourth after ending in a tie. Thus the America is gaining the momentum and playing good with only eight players of European left in the fray.
At the beginning of this year European are in the leading position up to match play where Poulter played fantastic but Sergio Garcia did not play well and ended at a very low position at Masters. Other players like Luke Donald, Soren Hansen, Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer could not secure their positions in the competition.
According to the Montegomerie who is a five time Ryder Cup winner was expecting that his team will perform well in the coming competition.
He also admitted that there are only two players who have secured their position and played well at Augusta. These two players are Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood. On the other hand the rest of the players did not play well as they expected where as there are number of top players who were not playing at the weekend.
