Plenty More In The Tank
Perhaps with hindsight we should have taken the margin of Monty’s first professional victory as a statement of serious intent for the near-total domination he would go on to inflict on his European Tour colleagues for much of the next 15 years.
Having turned pro in 1987 and found his European Tour feet nicely in 1988, he recorded his maiden win in the Portuguese Open TPC at the end of the following year, lapping the field en route to an 11-stroke victory. Four years later, he was No.1 in Europe, where he would stay for six more years, recording an impressive five tournament victories in 1999, the last of his seven straight years atop the European Tour Order of
