Colin Montgomerie

We can look forward to next year's Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales with special interest.

Long time Ryder Cup player and noted sound-bite artist Colin Montgomerie will be captaining the Euros.

Monty was given the nod today by the 15-man committee appointed to choose a successor to the last captain, Nick Faldo.

Faldo, you'll recall, failed to hold onto the Cup and it now resides back in America.

Monty wasted little time in letting the Americans know he intends to bring the Cup back in 2010.

Never mind he felt he should have been leading the squad last year in the U.S. but he has never got along with Faldo.

So the big scot would love nothing more than to win back what Faldo failed to hold onto.

Colin Montgomerie was a fierce competitor as a Ryder Cup player and a hero numerous times.

It will be interesting to see if (or perhaps when?) his abrasive, prickly style grates too much on the players.

Watch for Monty to be baited by the American media during press conferences leading up to 2010, as well. That should give us all an indication of whether or not he can control his emotions as captain better than he has in the past as a player - especially in front of a hostile crowd.