FRENCH LICK, Ind. — The first time Colin Montgomerie saw the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort, he realized a golfer needed to tread lightly.
“Mentally, you’ve got to be very careful here,” said Montgomerie. “Normally in a round of golf you’ve got a couple of holes where you’re like, ‘OK, I can make an easy par here.’ There’s nothing here like that. Every hole is a potential double bogey, so you’ve got to be very careful.”
While others all around him found a land mine at one point or another in Saturday’s third round of the 76th Senior PGA Championship, Montgomerie, the defending champion, kept his stumbles to a minimum.