At Whistling Straits one of the great Ryder Cup careers faces the prospect of fading out with a whimper. But he may well have felt every one of those years when his own, errant tee shot as much as ended he and Matt Fitzpatrick’s tussle with Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay. This is increasingly looking like a limp to what …
A few months ago, Lee Westwood stood on the 18th green at The Players Championship, knowing his biggest victory had just slipped away, and he smiled, sighed, laughed and lifted his arms in the air. After sinking to No 125 in the world rankings and admitting “golf doesn’t mean as much”, he found a way to hit life’s mythical reset …