Really: Monty Hopes To Play Way Onto 2012 Ryder Cup Team

For someone who just left off a player in the world's top 10 because his side is so deep, you'd like to think he was joking but there is video to prove it (thanks reader Mel for this). But then we'd have to assume a great sense of humor. Or self.

Asked if he could compete again, he said: "I would love to do that in 2012 and, more especially, to play in 2014.

"I would be 51, but in golfing terms, I suppose, still quite sprightly."

I suppose.

"I've got to get myself back in the top 50 in the world," he told BBC Scotland.

"Every competitor in the Ryder Cup, all 24 of them, were in the top 50 in the world this particular time and I have got to get myself back in.

"My world ranking has lapsed, so I've got to get myself back in and that means not just competing in tournaments but contending in them.

"If I can contend in them - and by that I mean top 10, top fives - then sometimes the door might open and I'll walk through it and win events and that gets me back into the Ryder Cup theme."

The poor lad is having Ryder Cup withdrawals.