What does it take for a champion to show up when his body has spent a year telling him to stay home?

For Colin Montgomerie , the answer arrived on a rain-soaked Florida course where champagne flowed, and Darren Clarke told the truth. “He’s been sick all year, hasn’t played much, but he turns up here and plays like a demon,” Clarke said in a 42-second post-victory interview that went viral after Team Europe’s triumph at the 2025 Skechers World Champions Cup. “Huge, huge boost for the European team.”

The words landed with weight. Montgomerie had spent 2024 battling what he described only as “internal” problems that left him “very poorly for six months.” He took a significant break from competitive golf. He didn’t specify the exact illness. Yet when December arrived and Europe needed hi

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