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Published Date: 07 February 2009
THE golfer Colin Montgomerie is to help build a cancer support centre in memory of his mother.
The new £3 million Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre will be the first project to be funded by the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation.

Montgomerie and his family established the foundation in tribute to his mother, who died of lung cancer in 1991.

The new centre will be based at Monklands Hospital in Lanarkshire. The county has a high incidence of cancer, with around 3,500 new diagnoses a year, according to Maggie's. Montgomerie, 45, said:

"The death of my mother from lung cancer was a devastating time for my family and me.



"I had always wanted to create a lasting legacy to my mother and am grateful to Maggie's for helping me realise this dream."





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  • Last Updated: 06 February 2009 6:59 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Colin Montgomerie
 
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Finlang,

Hong Kong 07/02/2009 01:53:41
Well done, Monty. Perhaps it takes the losing of a loved one to some hellish wasting disease to open the eyes - and the purse-strings - of seriously wealthy people. J. K. Rowling, whose mother was a victim of MS, made a similarly generous gesture. Both concentrated their donations in Scotland. They are to be commended.
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Dragonhead,

Dalian,China 07/02/2009 05:23:04
Golfers the world over are some of the most charitable people on the planet.The building of the Children's Starship Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand benefitted greatly from donations from competitions around the area.
Still have a pair of greenstone cufflinks for nearest the pin in one!
Well done Colin.Now bring the Ryder Cup home and show that self-serving Faldo how it is done.
Faldo on TV commentating is still "me,me, oh! and then me again". Could not believe him trying to trump even Arnold Palmer recently in the commentary box over the wine produced for his restaurant being better than Arnie's!!!The gall of the man who stopped Monty gaining the record Faldo held!

 

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