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Golf Tidbits: Are Monty and Couples deserving Hall of Famers?

As we heard several times on Monday evening, the World Golf Hall of Fame is the highest honor in the game.This year's class was headlined by Colin Montgomerie and Fred Couples. Monty elected on the International ballot and Couples tabbed on the PGA Tour ballot.Their worthiness to enter those hallowed halls is certainly up for debate.Montgomerie never won a major nor an event in the United States.Couples won one major - the 1992 Masters - but has only 15 career PGA Tour wins. He didn't even garner the required number of votes to get into the Hall.The tour has a provision that if no one gains the requisite 65 percent of the vote, then the leading vote getter would earn entry in the Hall if he collects over 50 percent of the vote. Couples squeaked in with 51 percent of the vote.Montgomerie may have never won in the United States, but he was a dominating 20-9-7 in Ryder Cup action. That record included a 6-0-2 singles record.The Scotsman collected 31 European Tour titles and won the tour's...

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