Watney primed to lead home charge

IT is convenient for us Europeans to think that our continent is now the epicentre of the golfing world.

The world’s number one and two are German and English, six of the top 10 are Europeans and, hey, wasn’t that Ryder Cup something special last October?

Yet, for all the heroics of Sandy Lyle and Seve Ballesteros, of Ian Woosnam, Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer, it’s been 12 years since Olazabal won his second Masters and became the last European to don the famous Green Jacket.