Westwood and Donald lead the English

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In the long history of the US PGA Players Championship, no Englishman has managed to win the title but never before, has two Englishmen been in a better position to triumph over history than now as world numbers two and three Luke Donald and Lee Westwood look to become the first Englishman to win the coveted title, often referred to as the unofficial fifth Major in golf and will be leading the English charge at the event, slated to be held between the 10th and 13th of May at the TPC Sawgrass.

Westwood has never played better in his career as he is playing now and Donald has never been up to the challenges of the course until this season and although the two of them know that they are up against it as well as history, they will be entering the event full of confidence and resolution. Many people, including Luke Donald consider this tournament to be the event most worthy of winning after the four Majors in golf and he spoke in an interview about how he rated it above the World Golf Championship Match Play Championships that he recently won.

Donald will have fellow Englishman Lee Westwood as his partner in the opening round and the world number three, who finished the last event at the Quail Hollow quite strongly after struggling in the beginning is quite confident that he will be able to take the title for the first time in his career, having had three top three finishes already in the nine appearances that he has made here.

But he also acknowledged that the challenge is different every time but Lee Westwood knows that if he wants to challenge Donald and McIlroy at the top, he will need to win these sorts of challenges often.

WESTWOOD AIMING FOR NUMBER ONE

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Golf’s third ranked player in the world, Lee Westwood is eager to trump two of his best mates off the course and claim the number one position in terms of the OWGR ratings. Westwood, is battling it out with fellow Englishman and former world number one Luke Donald to stake his claim on the top ranked position that has been held by the Irishman Rory McIlroy for a couple of weeks now with his win in the Honda Classic.

Although a win for Westwood in the World Golf Championship: Cadillac Championships would have made McIlroy’s reign as the number one golfer in the world one of the shortest in history, it did not happen and the 22 year old has managed to hold on to his top spot.

Both Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy, however, will take the week off in preparation for the upcoming Masters Tournament beginning in the first week of April and this gives another Englishman Luke Donald a chance to decrease the gap between him and McIlroy in the ratings with a win in the PGA Tour’s Transition Championships. And this is what Westwood is fearful of the most as he knows that he cannot let the top two in the rankings pull clear of him, making it too hard for him to climb to the top spot.

However, keeping all possibilities open, Westwood is adamant that whatever be the scenario, he will give it his all the become the world number one by the end of this year and has also targeted a win in any one of the Majors, which is more or less certain to take him close to the top if not the top spot. And Lee Westwood knows that he has it in him to become the world number one player, which is confidence a player must have if he wants to scale the heights.