Abu Dhabi World No. 2 Lee Westwood believes that an elusive Major success – which he’s so far failed to claim in 19 years of asking – could be just around the corner, all thanks to putting coach Phil Kenyon. 

Last month the 38-year-old Englishman, deemed one of the game’s most consistent players, won the Thai Championship by seven shots, starting with a career lowest round of 60. It followed on from his second consecutive Nedbank Challenge win in Sun City, South Africa, a fortnight earlier to hand ‘Westy’ his 37th professional title. 

Across all European, US and Asian Tours in 2011, he recorded three wins and 11 top-ten finishes in 31 appearances, but in the Majors, a continual sticking point in Westwood’s career, he could only muster a 2008 personal best-equalling third in the US Open. 

Having previously been the nearly man in 2010, finishing second in both the Masters and The Open Championship and third in the 2009 PGA Championship, that career-defining Major still awaits the double European Tour order of merit winner (2000, 2009) and three-time European Golfer of the Year (1998, 2000, 2009). 

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