Full Name: Lee Westwood
Date of Birth: 24 th April, 1973
Country: England
Profile: Lee Westwood was a champion player in school. He was associated with cricket; football and rugby till the age of 13. From this time he started playing golf and within the next two years won the junior championship of Nottinghamshire. He began to grow in confidence and in 1993 won the British Youth Championship. Hr also turned professional in the same year at the age of 20.
He started playing in the European Tour and his first title after turning pro in 1996. He won the Volvo Scandinavian Masters on the European Tour and followed it up with a victory at the Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters in Japan. During this period, he was at his prime winning at least four tournaments every year till 2000.
In 2000, he won seven tournaments which saw him catapult into the top 10 of world rankings. He went upto as high as the fourth spot. However, he has failed to impress anybody at the masters. His best finish till date was at the 2004 Open Championship, where he finished fourth.
Lee is married to Laurae Coltart, sister of Andrew Coltart (another professional golfer), and has two kids. After the birth of his first child in 2001, he took a long break from the game. He came back in 2003 and won the BMW International Open. Since 2004 he has not been able to win any tournament.
Tournaments won
Till date, Lee Westwood has 27 titles to his name. Of them, he won 16 at the European Tour. Here is a list of tournaments that he has won so far in his career.
- 2003: BMW International Open; Dunhill Links Championship (ET); Nelson Mandela Invitational (OT)
- 2000: Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe; Compaq European Grand Prix; Smurfit European Open; Volvo Scandinavian Masters; Belgacom Open (ET); Dimension Data Pro-Am; Cisco World Match Play (OT)
- 1999: TNT Dutch Open; Smurfit European Open; Canon European Masters (ET); Macau Open (OT)
- 1998: Deutsche Bank-SAP Open TPC of Europe; National Car Rental English Open; The Standard Life Loch Lomond; Belgacom Open (ET); Freeport-McDermott Classic (US PGA); Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters; Dunlop Phoenix (OT)
- 1997: Volvo Masters of Andalucia (ET); Malaysian Open; Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters; Holden Australian Open (OT)
- 1996: Volvo Scandinavian Masters (ET); Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters (OT)
US PGA=US PGA Tour; OT=Other Tours
