The gleaming gold Ryder Cup trophy has witnessed some epic battles in its illustrious career but never before has it graced an active battle ground as it will this week.
Colin Montgomerie will take the gleaming gold trophy with him when he visits the British troops in war-torn Afghanistan.
Monty taking the Ryder Cup to show off to British troops in Afghanistan. (Photo PGA of America)
Monty will spend four days on the ground visiting army personnel and meeting with British Embassy staff.
Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup captain will take the gleaming golf Ryder Cup with him along with a load of golfing equipment to hand out to troops.
“I am going to visit the troops and I am looking forward to it very much,” he said.
“I’m not taking my own golf clubs but I have gathered together a lot of golfing equipment for the troops.
“I’ve got four days out there and it’s going to be a special occasion as I have never ever undertaken anything like this before.
”I’m then heading to Hong Kong and looking to get myself into the following week’s Dubai World Championship.”
Monty is lying 102nd on the Race to Dubai and well adrift of fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher who holds down 60th place and has entered next week’s UBS Hong Kong Open with the goal of breaking inside the leading 60 so as to qualify for the following week’s season ending event in Dubai.
However while Monty is in Afghanistan he is hoping to pay a visit to the Kabul Golf Club, dubbed the most dangerous in the world.
The club is rudimentary as best with dusty fairways, oil impregnated greens, unwanted bunkers the result of rocket attacks and the ruins of Soviet tanks from past Afghan trouble.
Earlier this year three representatives attended the Dubai Desert Classic as guests of the sponsor and thrilled meeting and being photographed alongside Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia.
What a lift it would be for the Kabul Golf club to welcome the symbol of golfing supremacy between Europe and the U.S?
