Colin Montgomerie: Major Ironman, Plays Seven Majors in 2015

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Published: June 29, 2015

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While the younger golfers talk about limited schedules, Champions Tour player Colin Montgomerie is taking on a challenge that would make most professional golfers shudder.

“I've got seven major championships to play in this year. And I enjoy them all. Thoroughly,” he said prior to the Senior PGA Championship.

He’s already played five of those seven over a seven-week period, with three weeks in a row that included the Constellation Senior Players and the U.S. Open followed by the Senior U.S. Open.

The major run started the middle of May with the Regions Tradition—first major of the year on the Champions Tour where he finished T-24.

Immediately after the Regions Tradition, Montgomerie teed it up at the Senior PGA Championship where he was defending champ. He won it, capturing his third senior major, becoming one of two Champions Tour players to have their first three victories in majors. The other was Jack Nicklaus.

“He wasn't too bad, was he?” Montgomerie quipped.

At the Constellation Senior Players, he finished T-3.

The following week, as winner of the 2014 Senior U.S. Open, he was exempt to the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. He became one of eight Senior U.S. Open champs since the event’s inception in 1980 to make the cut, finishing T-64. Before anyone criticizes that, Phil Mickelson also finished T-64.

Other Champions Tour players to make the cut in a U.S. Open are Dale Douglas (1986, T-31), Jack Nicklaus (1994, T-28), Dave Eichelberger (2000, T-52), Hale Irwin (2001, 52nd), Peter Jacobsen (2005, 15th), Fred Funk (2010, 70th), Kenny Perry ( 2014, 28th) and now Montgomerie (via USGA).

This past week, he teed it up in his third major in three weeks, the Senior U.S. Open. Amazingly, he finished second. Earlier in the week he celebrated his 52nd birthday and talked about both USGA events.  

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