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Former Europe captain sympathises with Nick Faldo over his selection issues as he prepares for the Senior Open at Troon Bernhard Langer, the 2004 Europe Ryder Cup captain, said last night that Colin Montgomerie has a decent case for being handed one of the wild cards for next month's match in Kentucky. Padraig Harrington, the Open champion, suggested in the aftermath of his triumph at Royal Birkdale on Sunday that Montgomerie should be one of Nick Faldo's picks and Langer appeared to echo those sentiments on the eve of the Senior Open Championship at Royal Troon. Montgomerie is fifteenth on the Ryder Cup qualifying list, outside an automatic spot. “He's not far away and if he's that close. he'll be a more obvious pick than a rookie,” Langer said of Montgomerie, to whom he gave a wild card in 2004, when Europe beat the United... [read full story]
