Lee Westwood, at 52 years old, is tied for the lead of LIV Singapore with just one round to play.
Westwood has leaned on his years of experience as a former world number one to put in three consistent rounds, bettering the likes of Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm, who trail him going into Sunday.
Westwood has two wins on the PGA Tour, and is tied for eighth all-time on the European Tour with 25 wins. But speaking after his round at Sentosa, he explained why this would be the best win of his career.
Why Lee Westwood thinks LIV Singapore would be the best win of his career
Westwood is rolling back the clock to hang around with two of the world’s best. He shared his reaction to holding the lead in Singapore to reporters after his third round:
“Yeah, you know when you turn up to a LIV event that one of those three or two of those three or all of those three are probably going to be towards the top of the leaderboard. It’s a strong tour out here, and you have to play well to get yourself into contention and win.
“It’s nice at the age of 52, nearly 53, to still be competing on a world-class level, really.”
He was then asked where this win would rank among his other career wins, and Westwood said, “I guess at the age of — I’m 53 on the 24th of April, so at that stage, it would probably be the best win of my career.
“I get asked that question a lot, and I normally go back to the ’97 Australian Open beating Greg Norman in a playoff as certainly my favorite win, and then obviously winning at Sun City with my wife carrying my golf bag, I have to then say that that’s one of my favorite wins or she’s clips me around the ear.
“But all of my wins have special memories. But to still be competitive at my age and up there and having chances to win tournaments like this is validation for driving myself on and doing all the hard work and practice that nobody sees and still being competitive, like I say, and having a good enough game to compete against them.”
Lee Westwood shares expectations for his final round in Singapore
Westwood was asked how his experience would help him during his final round as he battles for the win, but he’s muting his expectations.
He said, “Anything can happen. We don’t have much control over external things. I could play great tomorrow. I could play poorly. I could play great and not shoot a very good score. I could play poorly and shoot a great score. You don’t know what’s going to happen.
“Really just controlling the controllables and sticking to my process and what I’ve done over the first three days and not get carried away with the position I’m in or trying to do too much, especially around this golf course.
“I get the feeling if you try and do too much around this golf course and get too aggressive, it’ll bite you.”
Only time will tell, but it’s set to be a blockbuster finish.
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