Lee Westwood

All season long, we’ve speculated as to who would eventually overtake Tiger Woods as the number one ranked player in the World Golf Rankings. Many thought it would be Phil Mickelson, who had chance after chance to become number one for the first time in his career, but every time Phil got close, things just didn’t go his way and Tiger’s reign at the top continued. Well now we have a new number one for the first time since 2005, as Lee Westwood has moved in front of Tiger and can now be known as the number one player in [...]

With the U.S. Open coming up next week at Pebble Beach, we should have expected that something would turn our heads a little this week, and give us some anticipation heading into the year’s second major. Well, that happened, as Lee Westwood picked up the victory this afternoon at the St. Jude Classic…..because, well, it looked like no one else wanted to win the event.

I just wanted to take the time to congratulate Lee Westwood on his big victory in Dubai, as he won the Dubai World Championship by a solid six strokes, and won the Race to Dubai in the process.

Did you really think anyone would come blazing towards the top of the leaderboard, and overtake Tiger Woods as the leader of the PGA Championship after the second round? If you did, well, it didn’t happen. Woods had a pretty decent day by his standards. He finished with a 2-under 70, bogeying his first hole of the day, and his last.

It’s that time of week again golf fans, with the Bridgestone Invitational starting tomorrow. No LPGA or Champions tour events this week, so we’ll be focusing on Phil Mickelson‘s return, as well as Tiger’s chances to win in back-to-back weeks. Also, British Open champion Stewart Cink will be playing for the first time since his victory at Turnberry last month. This week’s field includes all the household names you’ve come to recognize, so it should be a very exciting event to watch. Let’s get started with the predictions!

“Hitting the Links” will be a morning series here at Pro Golf Now, where we will provide you with the best links across the web discussing the previous weekend’s action on the course and whatever else is going on in the world of golf. And trust me, there’s plenty of fine links out there given what happened over the weekend. Let’s get it started: British Open Final Leaderboard For those true fans who want to brush up on their trivia and know who finished T88 or in last place at the 2009 British Open. We All Believed by Cameron Morfit [...]