| Open Championship Odds: Colin Montgomerie 50 to 1 |
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| Written by Zico Kelly | |||||||
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007
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 Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie won his first tour victory since 2005 after a superb finish to the European Open in Ireland. A streaking Colin Montgomerie is 50 to 1 odds with Bodog.com to win the forthcoming Open Championship.The 44-year-old carded seven birdies and survived nervy moments on the final two holes for a 65 which left him leading on 11 under. The final round was stopped by threat of lightning on two occasions. Monty was four strokes behind overnight leader Soren Hansen at the start of play and three birdies in his opening six holes put him right back in the hunt. He was on 10 under before play was stopped for around 50 minutes because of the threat of lightning. At that time Fasth was leading by one shot after four birdies in a superb 11 holes but he struggled when play restarted. He immediately carded two bogeys to drop to nine under while Montgomerie fired a birdie at the 15th to take a two-stroke lead. Colin Montgomerie then produced two fine up and downs after poor tee shots at the final two holes left him perilously close to the water hazards. Montgomerie had to wait before victory was confirmed as Hansen, who faded with bogeys at the 4th, 10th and 14th, played out his final-round 72 to end up on eight under. Hansen, who was two ahead going into the final day, lost a one-shot lead in the fourth round of the French Open last week. The win means that Montgomerie has surpassed Nick Faldo as the top British and Irish winner on the European Tour. He has 31 victories compared to Faldo's 30. Bodog.com has posted golf odds to win The (British) Open Championship of Golf 2007: Tiger Woods 11/4 Ernie Els 14/1 Phil Mickelson 14/1 Sergio Garcia 28/1 Vijay Singh 20/1 Retief Goosen 25/1 Jim Furyk 20/1 Luke Donald 28/1 Trevor Immelman 40/1 Padraig Harrington 25/1 Adam Scott 28/1 Darren Clarke 66/1 Colin Montgomerie 50/1 Geoff Ogilvy 38/1 Chris DiMarco 66/1 David Howell 66/1 Paul Casey 33/1 Stuart Appleby 50/1 Lee Westwood 50/1 Scott Verplank 100/1 Michael Campbell 80/1 Tim Clark 50/1 Angel Cabrera 40/1 Henrik Stenson 33/1 David Toms 66/1 Robert Allenby 66/1 Thomas Bjorn 80/1 Jose Maria Olazabal 66/1 Stewart Cink 80/1 Kenny Perry 80/1 Mike Weir 50/1 Nick O'Hern 80/1 Ian Poulter 66/1 Stephen Ames 80/1 Davis Love III 80/1 Chad Campbell 100/1 Zach Johnson 66/1 Carl Pettersson 80/1 Field (Any Other Golfer) 11/4                        |
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