Today would have, could have, should have seen Scotland play their opening match at the football World Cup in Qatar.
Of course, Ukraine put paid to those hopes back in June before Wales put paid to theirs. Either way, we’re not there. Again.
You have to go all the way back to 1998 for the last time that Scotland qualified for the FIFA World Cup. In golf, though, we’ve had things rather better in the interim.
In fact, in 2007, a team of Marc Warren and Colin Montgomerie triumphed in Shenzhen, China, and won the World Cup for Scotland.
The formidable pairing very nearly won the event the previous year in Barbados, and went to Asia in 2007 as the team to beat.
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As Montgomerie told bunkered, it’s a week that lives long in his memory.
“It was fantastic,” said the eight-time European No.1. “It all came
back to the year before when we lost in a playoff to Bernhard Langer and
Marcel Siem and, the next year, we went to China. To win it on the
other side of the world was something very special for us both.
“For Scotland to do that, the small nation that we are, to go to
China and to win the World Cup in a playoff against the USA, that was
very special.”
As Montgomerie admits, it wasn’t plain sailing for the Scots. A final round of 66 – an impressive feat…
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