Westwood on major mission after minor fire

LEE WESTWOOD’S feet are firmly on the ground heading into his 12th Masters tomorrow.

The world number two, seeking his first major success after three years of near misses, including last year’s second-place, is calm, collected and not at all ruffled by the mid-air drama that threatened to send his bid for a Green Jacket up in smoke before he even arrived at Augusta National Golf Club.

Or so it had been reported. Westwood, whose private jet had been forced to make an emergency landing soon after take-off from Houston, Texas, on Sunday night en route to Augusta, was keen yesterday to pour cold water on accounts of infernos at 30,000ft.