Colin Montgomerie welcomes additional help

Colin Montgomerie will be contractually obliged to have at least two vice-captains when he leads Europe in the Ryder Cup against the United States at Celtic Manor in September next year. For the first time, this requirement will be part of the agreement made between the captain and the European Tour.
Such a move could be interpreted as being a direct result of Nick Faldo, captain of the losing Europe team in Louisville last September, choosing to have only one vicecaptain, José María Olazábal. Though that was Faldo's decision, others looking at the Europe team during their comprehensive defeat came to the conclusion that Faldo had left himself too much to do.
In fact, Montgomerie may even have four vice-captains. “I have got to have two,” Montgomerie, 45, said. “You can envisage that number being doubled by the time the Ryder Cup comes round.
“One of them will be Olly [Olazábal], unless he is playing. His first request to me is to try and compete as a player, but if that does not happen, we have a pact that he will come and help me as the No1 vice-captain.”Watching the previous Ryder Cup from afar, Montgomerie was most impressed with the job that the American vice-captains, Ray Floyd, Dave Stockton and Olin Browne, did for Paul Azinger, their captain. Each vice-captain was put in charge of one four-man unit from the start of the week to the end, leaving Azinger free to roam. “That is exactly what Nick unfortunately couldn't do because he was more on his own,” Montgomerie said.
“You can't watch three or four groups. You just can't do it. You can't give that time. The way that Paul delegated to Ray Floyd and Dave Stockton, two very hard and competitive men, was possibly the winning of the Ryder Cup for the US and why we lost it. We didn't have the depth of backroom staff.”
Annika Sorenstam, 38, who retired from the LPGA Tour last year after 72 victories and 10 major tournament wins saying that she wanted to start a business and a family, announced last night that she and Mike McGee, her husband, are expecting their first child in the autumn.
Source:the times