Golden opportunity for Westwood

NO Tiger Woods, no Phil Mickelson. Surely then no better opportunity for Lee Westwood to win his first World Golf Championships title.

Except for one thing. In nine previous attempts in the Accenture Match Play he has never been made it beyond the second round, let alone all the way to a title now worth nearly £900,000.

So poor is Westwood’s record that when five-year-old daughter Poppy asked on Sunday when he would be back home from Tucson, Arizona, the world number four had to laugh.