Levet withdrew Wednesday from the year's third major after being ruled out for six weeks with a broken shin. He broke the bone jumping into a lake to celebrate his victory at the French Open on Sunday.
Levet's celebration at the 18th green of Le Golf National outside Paris was criticized by Colin Montgomerie, who played alongside the Frenchman in Europe's Ryder Cup-winning side in 2004.
Montgomerie has seen other players leap into bodies of water to celebrate victories -- Paul McGinley did so after holing the winning putt for Europe at the Belfry in 2002 -- and doesn't see the point.
"I think it's the silliest thing that players have done over the years, I really do," Montgomerie said Wednesday. "I've always been suspect about people diving into lakes (who) don't know how deep it is and what's in there.
Leave it to the French to keep coming up with new ways to be called puuussssiieess by the rest of the free world. Good God, man how in the hell are you going to pull out of any golfs tournament, let alone the British Open, with a busted shin from jumping into a little pond? Hell, Tigers Wood won the US Open with a brokens leg and torn ACL. The only thing that keeps Tiger out of tournaments is a 9 iron to the dome piece, sexahol, and a busted ego from banging Perkins waitresses three at a time. Which I just assume that's what he's doing right now when he claims to be injured. Why on Earth would you jump in a pond after winning something so miniscule as the French Open anyway?
And how about Colins Montgomerie chiming in with his two cents. I can't stand that fuzzy little foreigner. I used to love rooting against him non-stop when he played on the Tour regularly back in the day. Nothing better than that smug little Brit or Scot, or whatever the hell he is choking in a major.
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