10 Best Golf Players Never To Win A Major
7. Colin Montgomerie
Being regarded as one of golf's nearly men can be seen as a compliment or an insult but there is no doubting that Colin Montgomerie fits the tag after five runner-up positions at major tournaments.
Montgomerie never emerged victorious on the PGA Tour but he was a serial winner on the European Tour, claiming 31 trophies and eight European Tour Order of Merit crowns. Winning a major seemed inevitable but he always fell agonisingly short when in contention.
His first near miss came when losing a three-way playoff at the 1994 US Open before a year later, he lost a playoff to Steve Elkington at the USPGA Championship. He would miss out by a shot at the 1997 US Open and the same would occur at the 2006 version of the event.
His second place at the 2005 Open Championship was less heart-breaking after finishing five shots adrift of Tiger Woods but rarely as someone with so much accuracy from the tee and fairway failed to win a major tournament.
Since switching to the Champions Tour, Montgomerie has won the Senior USPGA Championship on two occasions and the US Senior Open once.