Champion Scot Colin Montgomerie has called for the word ‘Senior’ to be dropped from all over-50s tours around the globe.

The now 58-year-old and triple Senior Major winner will have his only son, Cameron on the bag for this week’s  Senior Open Championship at Sunningdale and where he now resides.

The U.S. Tour where Monty now plays full-time is known as the ‘Champions Tour’ while it was just recently the European Tour renamed their Seniors Tour as the Legends Tour.

And Monty is calling for organisers to drop the word ‘Senior’ from events like week’s Senior Open suggesting: “We saw with Phil Mickelson winning twice last year that it proves that this so-called ‘Senior Tour’ .. I don’t like the wording ‘Senior Tour’.

Colin Montgomerie in fine form ahead of this week’s Senior Open Championship

“You expect old Tom Morris to come out onto the course with a bloody walking stick.

“I just don’t like that wording but at the same it proves that at age 50 Mickelson is able to compete here and he’s also a major winner this year.

“It proves that 50 is no longer a stigma to winning a major.  It’s just getting younger and younger and 50 is the new 35 almost”.

Monty is among seven Scots in the Sunningdale field and will play the opening two rounds alongside Open Champion, Paul Lawrie and 2018 winner Miguel Angel Jimenez.

And Kingsbarns Links Daniel Young will lead out nine Scots competing in the Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale at Celtic Manor.