The PGA tour is in Hilton Head this week at the Heritage and all the experts are picking Luke Donald to win due to his recent play, T4 Masters, won the Accenture Match Play and his form there, top 3 in his last 2 visits, and only out of the T10 once in his last 9 starts. If he does win he will become world #1, which got me thinking again, what is up with Lee Westwood this year.
When he got to #1 in 2010, he was a machine, air tight in all aspects of his game, and played and carried himself like the world's best player.
He is with the Asian tour in Indonesia this week where he will turn 38 on Sunday.
First here are the World Rankings as we go into this weekend, then europeantour.com caught up with Lee for his thoughts on his game.
1. (1) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 7.64 average points
2. (2) Lee Westwood (Britain) 7.38
3. (3) Luke Donald (Britain) 7.02
4. (4) Phil Mickelson 6.63
5. (6) Graeme McDowell (Britain) 5.93
6. (5) Tiger Woods 5.89
7. (9) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 5.73
8. (7) Paul Casey (Britain) 5.68
9. (8) Steve Stricker 5.47 10. (10) Matt Kuchar 5.24 11. (11) Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 5.18 12. (12) Dustin Johnson 5.06 13. (13) Jim Furyk 4.94 14. (15) Nick Watney 4.56 15. (14) Ernie Els (South Africa) 4.52 16. (16) Ian Poulter (Britain) 4.28 17. (18) Bubba Watson 4.27 18. (17) Adam Scott (Australia) 4.23 19. (19) Francesco Molinari (Italy) 4.20 20. (20) Hunter Mahan 4.11
JAKARTA - World number two Lee Westwood will have to overcome jetlag and putting problems if he is to mark his 38th birthday on Sunday with the Indonesian Masters title.
The Englishman is the standout name at the $750,000 Asian Tour event and is favourite to win his first title since he claimed the PGA Tour St Jude Classic in June. “It will be nice to win because my birthday is on Sunday but it will be difficult as there are a lot of strong players out here in Asia and you have to play well to win,” Westwood told reporters at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club on Wednesday.
Westwood, who held the number one ranking for 17 weeks until he was displaced by Germany’s Martin Kaymer in February, is aware that he needs to improve his game on the greens if he is to win in Indonesia.
“I’ve been playing okay but I didn’t have many great results. I played well in the Masters but didn’t putt very well,” Westwood said of his tied 11th place finish at the year’s first major at Augusta earlier this month. “I had other few decent results but nothing too spectacular. I’m looking to have that one week where everything comes together.”
The Englishman will head to South Korea next week for the co-sanctioned European and Asian Tour’s Ballentine’s Championship.
“I like to play all over the world and consider myself a global player. I’m playing in Korea next week so it is good to start my Asian campaign this week,” he said. “I only got back from Orlando on Friday afternoon and I’ve been struggling with the 11-hour time change but I seem to have recovered from it.”
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