COLIN Montgomerie and Tom Watson claimed yesterday that Bernhard Langer is good enough to make Europe's Ryder Cup team at Glenagles at the age of 56.

The two golfing legends both said they'd advise Paul McGinley to make the evergreen German a wild card pick after his record-breaking 13-shot victory in the Senior Open Championship at windy Royal Porthcawl.

Monty, Europe's winning skipper at Celtic Manor in 2010, finished a very distant second after a closing 69. He said: "You want experience on the first tee in a Ryder Cup and no-one apart from Tom Watson has more experience in the game right now than Bernhard.

"I hope Paul McGinley is looking at this result, both in terms of the way Bernhard is playing and the confidence of the guy."

The Scot's opinion was supported by Watson, who will skipper the US team in September. He said: "I'd certainly be telling Paul that this guy is playing so well he might be worth a pick.

"The way Bernhard is hitting it just now, Gleneagles is a course that could be played by him."

The last of Langer's 10 playing appearances in the Ryder Cup came 12 years ago, although he captained a winning team in 2004. If selected he'd break Raymond Floyd's record for the oldest player in the tournament by more than five years.

It would be just another record to add to those he set in his incredible Senior Open victory.

Eight shots ahead at the start of the final day, a closing 67 for an 18-under total of 266 saw him home by a huge margin.

On a course playing fiercely - with wind gusts of more than 20mph - it was an astonishing performance.

It demolished the previous biggest winning margin in this event - a seven-shot success for Bob Charles at Turnberry in 1989. It clipped a shot off the Champions Tour record set by Hale Irwin in the 1997 Senior PGA Championship.

It was also two shots better than the European Senior Tour record of Thailand's Boonchu Ruangkit from 2010.

Meanwhile, European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has withdrawn from the USPGA Championship due to a shoulder injury.

A bout of bursitis has ruled the 47-year-old Irishman out of next week's major at Valhalla Golf Club.

McGinley said: "I got a scan at the Scottish Open and it showed I really needed to rest my shoulder for a couple of months. It's a pity because I would have loved to have teed up at Valhalla but this is the sensible decision."