TROON, Scotland, July 14 (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie stepped onto the tee and hit a 220-yard shot down the fairway to begin the British Open at Royal Troon on Thursday, making his first appearance in an Open in six years and what may well be his last.
He found trouble with his second shot, plugging it in one of Troon's deep greenside bunkers. With playing partners Marc Leishman and Luke Donald waiting safely on the green, Montgomerie needed two shots to get out of the bunker, the second of them chopped backwards away from the green.