Miserable start for ill Westwood

Just when he wanted to be at his healthiest, Lee Westwood sounded and looked anything but today – and it showed in his golf.

Westwood, runner-up in the French Open on Sunday after a play-off with Germany’s Martin Kaymer, coughed and spluttered his way to an opening double-bogey six when the Barclays Scottish Open began at Loch Lomond today.