Golfbidder Tour Wrap Lee Westwood is back! He did say that the US Masters came a couple of weeks too early in his progression back to top form and those words proved prophetic as the Worksop man cruised to victory at the Maybank Malaysian Open by seven strokes. As ever the event was punctuated by rain and lightning delays but that didn’t seem to bother Westwood, who converted his work with new coach Mike Walker into victory after splitting with Hank Haney. Bernd Wiesberger, Louis Oosthuizen and Nicolas Colsaerts tied for second. Commenting after his 7th Asian Tour win Westwood said: I started working with a new coach a few weeks ago, Mike Walker, and Billy Foster came back on the bag at the end of last year, so I was going back to what I had done before because it had worked.” It begs the question why did Lee try to change his game with Hank Haney in the first place? Another man whose career, like Westwood, has had its highs and very lows came good on the PGA Tour at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head. Matt Kuchar overcame a shocking three-putt from four foot three inches on the 71st hole to chip in dramatically on the last and win by one. Kuchar’s final round of 64 saw him shoot up the leaderboard and pip on-form Luke Donald by one. At the same event Matt Fitzpatrick, the 2013 US Amateur Champion made his first career cut at the RBC Heritage and then went bogey free all weekend at Hilton Head. The 19 year old from Sheffield carded 18 pars in his final round prompting comparisons with Nick Faldo at Muirfield in 1987. Web golfer Josh Broadaway slammed past champion Sir Nick Faldo for what he perceived as Faldo taking the place of a real player in the RBC Heritage field; so much so that he took to Twitter to mock Faldos 6 over first round and tell him to get back in the booth. Broadaway wasnt thinking about Faldo’s six Majors when he tweeted... I personally think that Broadaway was hitting out at the wrong target. Its the tournament organizers who invite past champions back to play in the event, and Faldo having won in 1984 accepted the invite. Maybe Faldo saw playing as a chance to mix with some of the younger players on Tour (God knows he didnt mix much in his own day), to get that feeling of being out on the course again, to experience the way the courses are being set up in 2014, to get the lines on the greens and the kinds of shots required. After being slated earlier this year by Hank Haney for doing next to no research compared to Brandel Chamblee, possibly Faldo saw that being out there is his way of being a better announcer. Broadaway saw it differently. He saw another young struggling professional deprived of a chance to earn a living. There’s no right and wrong here, but possibly misplaced anger. Meanwhile Miguel Angel Jimenez played and won his first event on the Champions Tour last week, the Greater Gwinnett Championship, in front of one man and his dog. The Spaniard became the 18th first timer to win on the Tour but he made it very clear that his main focus was on trying to accumulate enough points to make Paul McGinleys European Ryder Cup team. Im playing very well and now you dont know what to do, but I need to do my points for the Ryder Cup, Jimenez said after winning. With a ranking of 32 in the world and after coming closer than ever to winning The Masters, let’s hope Jimenez remains in the big league for a few more years.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:05:42 +0000
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