Colin Montgomerie
Colin Montgomerie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom on June 23rd, 1963 and is the Golfer. At the age of 60, Colin Montgomerie biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE (born 23 June 1963), is a Scottish professional golfer.
He has won eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999.
He has participated in 31 European Tour events, the most notable among British golfers, placing him fourth on the all-time list of golfers with the most European Tour victories. Montgomerie won three straight Volvo Championships at Wentworth Club between 1998 and 2000.
He has been runner-up in five major championships, and his career-high world ranking is second.
Montgomerie, who turned 50, joined the Champions Tour in June 2013, where he made his debut in the Constellation Senior Players Championship, one of the five major championships in the United States.
Montgomerie captured his first senior major championship at the Senior PGA Championship on May 25th.
When he claimed his second senior major at the US Senior Open on July 13, he maintained it on Friday.
Montgomerie won his third senior major on May 24th, his third major championship.
However, he barely missed out on making it three Senior PGA Championships in a row in 2016, finishing second and three shots behind champion Rocco Mediate.
He won twice on the senior circuit in 2017, winning the inaugural Japan Airlines Championship before winning his sixth Champions Tour victory at the SAS Championship.
Early life
Despite being Scottish by birth and ancestry, he was raised in Yorkshire, England, where his father, James Montgomerie, was the managing director of Fox's Biscuits. He spent a number of years with Ilkley Golf Club, where Bill Ferguson, the former professional, was taught by him. He attended both Leeds Grammar School and Strathallan School, Perthshire. He became a Leeds United supporter during his time as a student. His father became the secretary of Royal Troon Golf Club, one of Scotland's most popular clubs.
Personal life
When Montgomerie was a good amateur and she was a promotions assistant, he met his first wife, Eimear Wilson, who lived in Troon. She was a 17-year-old law student at Edinburgh University and a spectator at an amateur championship in Nairn, in which Montgomerie smashed the field. The couple had three children (Olivia, Venetia, and Cameron) and lived in Oxshott, Surrey. Montgomerie's spending ten weeks alone before agreeing to try again after Eimear gave Montgomerie an ultimatum to choose between golf and marriage in 2002.
The couple finally broke up in 2006, with Eimear suing for divorce on account of his unreasonable conduct as a result of golf's obsession, causing anxiety and depression. In return for Eimear's refusal to give up any information about Colin's future earnings, the couple decided to a clean break divorce settlement of £8 million.
He has had several relationships since his divorce, including Spanish model Ines Sastre and a divorced neighbor Jo Baldwin, whom he encountered on the school board. Their split, he said, was his worst in his professional career.
Montgomerie revealed his relationship with Scottish millionaires Gaynor Knowles in 2007. The couple wed on April 19th, 2008 at Loch Lomond Golf Club. Montgomerie was granted a superinjunction by Mr Justice Eady on July 8, 2010, which came to light while attending a press conference at the 2010 PGA Championship in Wisconsin. He and Knowles divorced in March 2017.
Rangers F.C. is a charity that helps Rangers F.C. When he was living in Leeds United in 1970, he was living in the area.
Amateur career
Montgomerie was one of the first British golfers to enroll in a United States college, attending Houston Baptist University, where he served on the golf team and became the country's top player.
He has won three major Scottish amateur tournaments, including the 1983 Scottish Youth Championship, the 1985 Scottish Stroke Play Championship, and the 1987 Scottish Amateur Championship.
He appeared in the Eisenhower Trophy (1984 and 1986) and twice in the Walker Cup (1985 and 1987). He was also a member of the Scottish team that won the 1985 European Amateur Team Championship at Halmstad Golf Club, North Course, Sweden.
Before turning pro, he considered a career in sports management, utilizing his degree in corporate administration and law; the interview process included a golf outing that convinced the firm that he should become a client rather than an employee.
Professional career
Montgomerie made a name for herself on the European Tour before 1988 and was named Rookie of the Year that year. He quickly rose to become one of Europe's top pros, winning his first tournament at the 1989 Portuguese Open TPC by 11 shots and his second, defeating a world class field at the 1991 Scandinavian Masters at Royal Drottningholm Golf Club in Sweden. In 1991, he made his Ryder Cup debut.
He was ranked first on the European Tour Order of Merit from 1993 to 1999 (a record for the most consecutive Orders of Merit) and has 31 victories on the tour, including the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Volvo PGA Championships in Wentworth, England. Montgomerie was, on the other hand, loses despite several near-misses.
Montgomerie made the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings in 1994 and spent 400 weeks in the top ten. His highest position was at number two in the world. Montgomerie, in his prime, was regarded as one of the world's best drivers of golf and became a highly precise iron player, often able to estimate distance from long range.
Montgomerie placed first in the Volvo Bonus Pool every year from 1993 to 1998. The Volvo Bonus Pool was an additional tranche of prize money distributed at the end of each European Tour season from 1988 to 1998 to the tour's regulars, who had the best results of the season.
His form faded gradually in the new millennium, partially due to marriage breakdowns and his ranking, which dropped to 82nd in the world, in 2005, but he bounced back strongly in 2005, winning his eighth European Tour Order of Merit and returning to the top ten in the World Rankings. He became the first man to win 20 million euros on the European Tour in 2005, topping the European Tour's all-time highest earners list. In July 2007, he won for the first time in almost two years at the Smurfit Kappa European Open. Montgomerie fell out of the top 100 players in the world rankings in 2008. His good play at the 2008 French Open in June boosted him to the top of the charts, but Montgomerie's 2008 Ryder Cup squad failed to qualify for Nick Faldo's 2008 French Open team. Montgomerie made the cut in March 2009 and was not in contention during the weekend but not in contention. He remained the top earner on the European Tour until 2010, when he was defeated by Ernie Els.
Montgomerie won a 68th round of 68 for a share of 7th position in the 2011 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth after nearly two years without a top-ten finish. Despite his appearance, his fame remained strong. Montgomerie was named in 2012 by the Golf Club Managers' Association's Golf Club Management journal as the seventh most influential individual in British golf. Montgomerie finished 6th at the Johnnie Walker Championship in Gleneagles in August 2012, his highest finish in over four years.