Boy, since he captained his team to the Ryder Cup when Monty speaks it makes news around the world..Today he spoke with Scotland's national newspaper "The Scotsman" which is the Globe and Mail of Scotland with hall of fame writers like Norman Mair, then he spoke with BBC Scotland..
His thoughts make sense until he talks about making the 2014 team at Gleneagles when he will be 51..
Here is the report from Europeantour.com
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Colin Montgomerie hopes to see some changes to the Ryder Cup format when the tournament returns to Europe in 2014.
Montgomerie, who captained the winning side this fall in Wales, would like to see a new format which sees all 12 players take part in each session.
The heavy rains which forced the Ryder Cup to finish on a Monday for the first time in history also forced officials to reschedule the sessions, which meant every player saw action.
"I have always felt that if you are selected or qualify for the Ryder Cup, you should play," Montgomerie tells The Scotsman. " I think it is such a shame to have four players walking around at any one time."
The change in the schedule in Wales is believed to have benefitted the Europeans as American coach Corey Pavin was forced to play players in sessions he intended them to skip.
Jose Maria Olazabal, who was a vice-captain on this year's team, is expected to be named Montgomerie's successor when the European Tour's tournament committee meets January 18th in Abu Dhabi. After serving as Nick Faldo's assistant in Louisville two years ago, he hesitated throwing his hat into the ring this time around due to his ongoing health concerns. Despite battling rheumatic pains for well over a decade, he is considered the obvious candidate for 2012.
Montgomerie would also like to see the next European captain given more time to make his final roster selections. The European captain says announcing the team moments after the Johnny Walker event did a disservice to Edoardo Molinari, who won the tournament to make the final squad, because the media focus was on the players who did not make the team.
"After my horrible Sunday at Gleneagles, I don't think you will find the team being selected there and that time again," said Montgomerie. "I never really understood the rush to do that when we did."
That's another issue he hopes the future captain doesn't have to face - trying to inform players who did not make the team while they are competing in a separate event thousands of miles away. Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington and Justin Rose learned their fate while they were playing in the first FedEx Cup playoff event. In the case of Harrington and Casey, one was named to the team while the latter found out he wasn't on the squad second hand.
In fact, Montgomerie admitted that he has yet to speak with Casey since that decision.
"I have been trying hard and I am not getting very far," he said. "E-mails, texts and voicemails, that's about my limit. I can't do any more than that. I have tried and we will leave it at that."
Montgomerie also sees himself back at the Ryder Cup, not as captain but rather as a player.
"I would love to do that in 2012 and, more especially, to play in 2014," he tells BBC Scotland. "I would be 51, but in golfing terms, I suppose, still quite sprightly."
One of Europe's all-time great Ryder Cup players, having won 23.5 points from 36 matches, Montgomerie estimates he would need to be in the top 50 in the world rankings in order to get an invite onto the team. Currently, the Scotsman is ranked 405th in the world.
Bryan Angus
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