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Wed 07 Jul 2009Lyle's apology pours more fuel on Monty fire
THE VERY worst indictment that can be levelled at a professional golfer is to accuse one of cheating. It’s worse than heresy, or blasphemy. And it is exactly what one Scot – Sandy Lyle – did to another Scot – Colin Montgomerie – the other day, very conveniently in the run-up to the 138th British Open, to open a can of worms that left much squirming and wriggling at Turnberry yesterday.
Lyle’s original comments – to two journalists last Friday during the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond, but which were only published in British national papers yesterday – referred to an incident in the Indonesian Open in Jakarta in 2005 where video evidence indicated Montgomerie had taken an incorrect drop after a rain delay.
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