One Ryder Cup legend thinks it’s age for Tiger Logs to provide into Father Pace and vacate.
Colin Montgomerie, who climbed as prime Refuse. 2 on this planet golfing scores on the top of his occupation in 1996, known as at the injury-plagued Logs to comprehend that his days of successful tournaments are completed.
Logs is ready to play games within the British Observable on an exemption for month champions then this day.
“Aren’t we there? I’d have thought we were past there,” Montgomerie told The Times of London. “There is a time for all sportsmen to say goodbye, but it’s very difficult to tell Tiger it’s time to go. Obviously, he still feels he can win. We are more realistic.”
Logs is a 15-time main winner, together with 3 British Opens (2002, 2005 and 2006).
He has received only one main (the Masters in 2019) since 2008, alternatively, and his most up-to-date match win – the record-tying 82nd of his occupation – took place in October 2019.
Logs neglected the scale down endmost past on the U.S. Observable at Pinehurst in North Carolina. Extra so, he seemed to be in ache as he shot and moved across the route.
“I hope people remember Tiger as Tiger was, the passion and the charismatic aura around him,” Montgomerie stated. “There is none of that now. At Pinehurst, he did not seem to enjoy a single shot and you think, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ He’s coming to Troon (for the British Open) and he won’t enjoy it there either.”
Montgomerie, 61, hasn’t ever received a significant – he completed 2nd to Logs at St. Andrews in 2005 – however rode his undefeated listing in singles fits on the Ryder Cup into the International Golfing Corridor of Repute.
He nonetheless performs at the PGA Excursion Champions for golfers over era 50.
Logs, 48, as soon as was once regarded as a lock to cross Jack Nicklaus’ listing of 18 main victories however has been undone by means of power again ache, accidents to his proper leg suffered all through a 2021 automotive collision and endmost time’s ankle surgical treatment.
He has performed in simply 4 occasions in 2024, together with the primary 3 majors.
Montgomerie thinks Logs must have retired then lacking the scale down on the British Observable in 2022.
“That was the time,” Montgomerie stated. “Stand on that bridge, start waving, and everyone goes, ‘So, is that it?’ ‘Yeah, it is.’ It would have been a glorious way to go. The stands were full, the world’s TV cameras—from all continents—were on him, he’s walking up there on his own, tears were in his eyes obviously… you can’t beat that walk.”
