Colin Montgomerie's Life in Golf & Majors
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I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
And when I find my ball in a fried egg, fried egg, the dreaded fried egg, fried egg, fried egg, fried egg, fried egg, fried egg lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course.
Welcome back to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm your host, Andy Johnson. And today, this is a special. It is not going to be hosted by me. It will be hosted by Kevin Van Valkenburgh. It is an interview with the great Colin Montgomery. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Lots of chuckle, chuckle moments. Lots of nitty gritty details from Monty stories from yesteryear. This was a fantastic lesson. This was a piece of content we thought about using a couple of different ways and it ended up just being a podcast. So we said, why don't we put it on here? So a big thanks to Kevin, big thanks to Monty. And I hope everybody enjoys this episode of the Friday golf podcast and Kevin's interview with Colin Montgomery.
Hi, Colin. Hello there. How are you?
I'm great. Thank you for joining me this morning.
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. I've been a fan for a number of years, and one of the things I love doing is reading golf biographies, and so I found this recently, and I was going through it, and I thought, you know what? This would be a great chance to talk to Monty about his career and some of the stuff, because I feel like... I almost feel like I'm a bit of a professor for the younger generation of golf fans because I can sort of educate them on some of the game greats who they might have missed a little bit.
Yeah, well, it is different nowadays. You know, they all come out of college and they're all looking similar, you know, with their hats on. And the way they play the game is very similar to the way that we used to play the game with feel when you think of even a different generation than me, but the Trevino's of this world. the palmers the nicholas that you know these guys that real field players now it's a whole different game isn't it you know it's uh it's uh a 330 bashing and uh and um a wedge on and and and it's all about putting really you know now it's it's it's used to be holding up a seven iron into into that right to left wind and all this sort of stuff now it's a bit of a bash but hey every sport changes you know every sport has changed and and every sport is changing yeah
Yeah. Did you study the sort of greats of the game when you were young and coming up, you know, in Glasgow and stuff? Did you read a lot about anything?
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't look at any swings particularly. I was always interested in the guys that got the ball up and down. Seve, I always admired Seve. In fact, at the Masters many, many a time. And we miss him terribly, you know. But at the Masters, I remember watching him. We used to have the range across just beside Magnolia Lane. There was a bunker on the left on the left hand side. He drove up to the clubhouse and he used to spend a lot of time in there. And I used to watch him and I used to sit there and watch him just as a spectator. Really, I was one of the hundreds of people that were just watching him and I was playing in the tournament. And I admired that sort of vision and that charisma, you know, of trying to get that ball as close as possible from this indifferent lie.
I think that was just a real talent, you know. So I watched him. But swinging the golf club, not really. No, because mine was always quite unique. And I had a very upright swing from, from, from birth really came out the cradle swing in the club upright. And, uh, it, it, it wasn't failing me at that stage. So I was one of these people that if it wasn't bust, I don't want to fix it really, you know, because I heard so often and I played with a number of great players, Ronan Rafferty, remember that name, uh, who won the order of merit back in, in 89 there, uh, great player, went to the Ledbetter School. I'm not blaming Ledbetter, but one of, you know, that type of idea.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–14:14
2
How did Colin's early years in Glasgow and influences like Seve shape his golf philosophy?
14:14–23:23
3
Why did Colin leave the New Mexico Military Institute and how did he end up at Houston Baptist University?
23:23–53:38
4
What memorable college moments (scones on fire, valet jobs) reveal about Colin's student life?
53:38–1:04:09
Speakers
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