Golf legend and LIV hero Lee Westwood reveals one thing he will never do
Evergreen Lee Westwood insists he'll never walk away from a golfing fight.
The English star is in a rich vein of form and maintained his excellent work of The Open at Royal Portrush with a flying start to LIV UK.
Westwood opened with a five-under round at JCB Golf and Country Club in Staffordshire and is revelling in current displays, which included a record-equalling back-nine score of 29 on his third round in last week's Major. The 52-year-old has endured massive highs and lows in his career, but has kept working and battling.
Westwood said: 'I've never given in in my career. I've had slumps and I've bounced back. I've been at No. 4 in the world and then nearly 300 and then bounced back to No. 1. So that tells you that Lee Westwood doesn't toss it in on a golf course or in his career. I was brought up to keep trying hard and grinding it out.
'It's a continuation of going right back to Washington really when I shot 62 in the final round. I had been playing well leading up to there. Golf is the type of game where you feel like you've finally got it and it doesn't give you the score that you think you should do, right? It never quite lets you.
'But then that final round there, I shot nine-under, I think, and that was kind of the trigger to give me some confidence that the good stuff I was working on on the range and on the putting green and on the short game area was paying off score-wise now. Then the last few weeks I've played a lot better without really seeing dramatic results.
'But I've felt good play and hopefully good scores coming. I've been driving the ball well, driving it longer, so yeah, it's all moving in the right direction. Just clarity really, clarity on things I want to work on in my swing and short game, Just play one round at a time, narrow it down to that, and whatever happens happens.'
Westwood and his colleagues are savouring the atmosphere at England's LIV event and and the former Ryder Cup hero is enjoying the adaption and change in tempo from the 153rd Championship in Northern Ireland last week. The occasions and the atmospheres are very different, but Westwood insists variety is important going forward in the current landscape of the sporting world.
He said: 'Am I comfortable with it? Yeah, I don't mind change and adapting. It's people in general that don't like change and adapting. People are used to the traditions and staying in their ways, their comfort. But all sports have to adapt and change. I think golf is doing a great job of it through LIV, yeah.'
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