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Westwood looking to secure Ryder Cup place
English golfer Lee Westwood believes he is ready to mount a late challenge as he looks to secure his place in the European team for the Ryder Cup tournament this season.
The veteran golfer and former world number one has not missed a match up against the American since he first made his appearance in the tournament back in 1997 at Valderrama and he is not willing to see his chance go by this season either.
The next clash of the two golfing teams will take place at Gleneagles in Scotland and it seems extremely difficult for the Englishman to maintain that record with his recent record going all but downhill at the moment. The former world number one finds himself at 35th ranked at the moment and unless there is a miracle of sorts in the upsurge of his form, he will surely not be a part of the tournament.
But he still has his hopes high after scoring 68 and 65 in the first two rounds of the Honda Classic to remain in contention till the third round of the event. And although he couldn’t win the title at the event, his form will provide him with a lot of hope as he looks to secure his place in the European Ryder Cup team.
He recently sacked his swing coach Sean Foley but doesn’t look to be bothering the Englishman. He stated that he hasn’t been hitting the ball well enough for the last year and a half but mentioned that he has the feeling that it’s on its way back.
He stated that feels that the penetration is back in the drive and he has also gone on to state that the distance in his drive has given him a lot of hope of late as well.
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Donald Claims 2-shot Lead
English golf hero Luke Donald has impressed his fans once again with his 2-shot lead post Round 1 at Sun City’s Nedbank Golf Challenge.
The impressive Sun City score is an able continuation of the Brit’s recent resurgence in his golfer career. Unfortunately a bad weather forced an early termination of opening stage of the Golf Challenge held at South Africa.
Donald had his 1st win of 2013 with the Dunlop Phoenix trophy once again last month in Japan. He was 5 under par post eleven holes while the play was terminated for the opening day given the constant lightning threats.
Almost 3 hours got wasted for bad weather conditions and it was just when Luke swayed up the leaderboard, the 1st thunderstorm hit the course, just after the local noon time.
The World’s # 15 proceeded with an amazing start with birdie from 5 ft on first & eagle from fifteen feet on par 5 second. The former World number 1 remained 3 under after 5 holes when all the golfers were shifted away from the Sun City course.
Donald was honored with the coveted Number One World ranking in 2011 as he came up with the prestigious PGA BMW Championship.
The 35-year-old Brit golfer picked up shots again as the tournament resumed – at the 8th & 9th to come out in thirty one, a couple of shots standing ahead of Thomas Bjorn (Denmark), Jamie Donaldson (Wales) & Brendon Jonge (Zimbabwe)- who noticed Luke’s approach to 9th spin back to hole for eagle 3.
Martin Kaymer, the defending champion of the prestigious tournament, was further a shot back on 2 under with Henrik Stenson (the European # 1) one under via 7. However, Justin Rose, the illustrious American Open Champion, was in the joint twenty-eights in the thirty man field post 4 bogeys in 1st 8 holes.