Golf
Monty suffers nightmare round
2009-05-02 14:15
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Girona - Europe's Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie posted a second round 81 at the Spanish Open on Friday for his worst performance in Europe in five years.
With a total of 153, nine over par, the Scot missed the cut and is now set to fall further than his 160th place in the world rankings.
Montgomerie also had an 81 in last season's British Masters at The Belfry, but his last round in Europe higher than that was an 82 in the 2004 European Open at The K Club in Ireland.
American John Daly, currently serving a six-month US tour ban and playing his first event since December, also had to tackle the swirling afternoon conditions, but battled to a 72 and two under aggregate.
That left him 11 adrift of French leader Thomas Levet and the former Open champion commented: "It was brutal. You couldn't make up any ground.
"There wasn't any hole where you could feel comfortable. But I'm getting the weekend in and getting to play some more - it beats packing up and going to Italy."
Daly is in Europe for the next month before returning to the States.
Lying in second is Denmark's Soren Hansen who shot a second round 70 to lie two shots off the lead, with Peter Lawrie one shot further back in third.
Joint fourth on eight under, five behind Levet, are England's Chris Wood, the 21-year-old who finished fifth in The Open as an amateur last July, and Spaniard Alejandro Canizares, whose Ryder Cup father Jose Maria never won his national crown.