{"id":11134,"date":"2010-11-05T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T14:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2010-11-05T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:59:24","slug":"lee_westwood_wont_be_number_one_for_very_long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/trap_five\/lee_westwood_wont_be_number_one_for_very_long","title":{"rendered":"Lee Westwood Won&#8217;t be Number One for Very Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trap Five Logo\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/trap_five\/tf_title.gif\" width=\"110\" height=\"81\" \/>Ladies and gentlemen, Lee Westwood is now officially the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/thrash_talk\/westwoods_ascension_caps_foreign_golf_invasion\" title=\"Westwood's Ascension Caps Foreign Golf Invasion\">number one ranked golfer in the world<\/a>. Given that he took the top spot from media machine Tiger Woods, I probably don&#8217;t even have to tell you that. Although the story of Westwood&#8217;s fall from a top player early last decade is a good one, nice stories don&#8217;t a great golfer make. Even including his European Tour play, Westwood has no career majors and fewer wins the last two years than Tiger Woods, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,2009761,00.html\" title=\"Phil Mickelson, Vegetarian\" class=\"external external_icon\">newly vegetarian Phil Mickelson<\/a>, Martin Kaymer, and Steve Stricker. While his consistent play over the last few years has put him at the apex of his sport, here are five reasons that Lee Westwood won&#8217;t last as the top golfer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Number Five: It&#8217;s Packed at the Top<\/strong><br \/>\nAt this week&#8217;s WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai, China, each of the world&#8217;s top four players will have an opportunity to walk away with the number one ranking. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Martin Kaymer are all vying to steal the top spot from Lee Westwood, and the race looks like it could be tight for a while. Not to be left out, Steve Stricker and Jim Furyk are both within striking distance and while they aren&#8217;t in this week&#8217;s field, their presence will make for a close race at the onset of the 2011 season. If only because he has so many players to fend off, Lee Westwood will have a tough time keeping his fellow competitors down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number Four: History is Not on Lee&#8217;s Side<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter Tiger&#8217;s historic win in the 1997 Masters, he underwent massive swing changes under the tutelage of his long-time swing coach, Butch Harmon. He went through an extended slump, during which he played in ten majors without winning a single one. From 1997 to the PGA Championship in 1999, Tiger battled the likes of Greg Norman, Ernie Els, and David Duval for the world&#8217;s top spot. With his &#8217;99 PGA victory, Tiger overtook them once and for all. The following year he embarked on a stretch of golf that could be among the best of all time. In 2000, he recorded a fifth-place finish in the Masters, followed by the incredible Tiger Slam. Not since Bobby Jones in the 1930s had someone held all four of golf&#8217;s most important trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger won his third Masters in 2002 but again went through a ten-major drought. During the latter half of this second slump, he had a public spat with Butch Harmon and sought out the teachings of Hank Haney. In September of 2004, which Tiger was working out the kinks in his swing, Vijay Singh earned the top ranking. It took Tiger going 1st-2nd-1st in the season&#8217;s first three majors for him to regain the top spot for good.<\/p>\n<p>Now, among swing changes, injuries, and infidelities, Tiger&#8217;s top ranking has again been stolen. If history tells us anything, it&#8217;s that Tiger Woods does not take losing his top spot lightly, and that he is going to work tirelessly to get it back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number Three: Everyone Else&#8217;s Play as of Late<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery autumn going into the Ryder or President&#8217;s Cup, golf fans and writers love to talk about how Tiger always seems out of it, or how he isn&#8217;t a team player. Sorry folks, but that&#8217;s just not true. In the 2009 President&#8217;s Cup Tiger went 5-0-0, better than any other player, and in the 2010 Ryder Cup Tiger went 3-1-0, as good as or better than everyone else. This year Tiger did that amid substantial swing changes, self-imposed personal turmoil, and the eminent loss of his top spot.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, for a guy who supposedly couldn&#8217;t care less about team play, he sure looked into it after trouncing Francesco Molinari in his final day singles match and cheering on the U.S. as Rickie Fowler&#8217;s and Hunter Mahan&#8217;s matches reached the last few holes. In the next few weeks, Tiger will play in Shanghai, Thailand, Australia, and at his own tournament in California. While these tournaments combined will not count very much to the Official World Golf Rankings, they should serve well in gauging the state of Tiger&#8217;s golf game. If Tiger gets hot and starts knocking off wins, Lee Westwood might once again be in Tiger&#8217;s rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger isn&#8217;t the only player who can ride a hot streak. When last we saw Jim Furyk he was collecting a tidy $10 million for his FedExCup victory, not to mention the cash for his three tournament wins in 2010. Martin Kaymer is, of course, your 2010 PGA Champion, but he also has three other wins this year, and two victories each of the prior two years. If the sheer number of his wins isn&#8217;t impressive enough, he has shown the ability to win in bunches. This year he won in August, September, and October, and last year Kaymer won twice in July. Martin Kaymer knows how to string wins together, something that Lee Westwood has never done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number Two: Sean Foley<\/strong><br \/>\nSean Foley might not be the great hope when it comes to golf instruction. He makes dumb statements (this just in, the &#8220;pop&#8221; you hear at PGA Tour driving ranges is not really the air escaping the ball&#8217;s seams as he once said), he tends to alienate those who have helped him, and he gets into feuds with Tour players (see Charlie Wi). However, he has shown through Hunter Mahan and Sean O&#8217;Hair that he knows how to teach. Foley has the potential to take many of Tiger&#8217;s swing faults (a poor backswing hand plane, a flat shoulder turn, lots of reliance on timing) and fix them so that he doesn&#8217;t hit just 57.21% of fairways and 64.07% of greens. Those numbers would have put Tiger at an abysmal 162nd place and 164th place, respectively, if he had played enough this year to qualify. With Sean Foley in his camp (and maybe more importantly, Hank Haney far, far away), Tiger Woods has an opportunity to once again prove that he is the greatest and most dynamic golfer in the world today, and possibly ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number One: Lee Isn&#8217;t a Closer<\/strong><br \/>\nThe #1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking seems to repel everyone but Tiger Woods. Coming into 2010, Tiger had a nearly six-point lead over #2 Phil Mickelson, and an almost seven-point lead over #3 Steve Stricker. By August, while Stricker had fallen back, Phil had closed to within 0.4 points, and every week a high finish would have given him the number one ranking. In typical Phil fashion, he was never able to pull it off, and at he seemed to actually play worse when he had a chance at the top spot. This poor play by Mickelson and Stricker throughout the year does not bode well for Westwood.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Stricker was able to pick up his second win of the year in July, but he currently resides in fifth place thanks to Martin Kaymer&#8217;s three wins and Jim Furyk&#8217;s hot play in the FedExCup Playoffs. Although Kaymer&#8217;s wins shot him up the rankings, he has been unable to capture the top spot and he is currently in third place, ahead of Furyk in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Westwood&#8217;s second-place finishes in 2010&#8217;s first two majors, combined with many months of overall consistent play, have earned him just enough points to finally overtake a fast-falling Tiger. Not only have Phil and Steve proven that they couldn&#8217;t scrap out a win when it would have put them in the top spot, Westwood has shown with his many runner up finishes that he is not the closer that one needs to be to hold onto the top spot. Westwood has had opportunities to win majors each of the last three years, but every time he has had a chance to take control of the tournament, he has faltered down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, his current top ranking is not so much due to his own strong play, but due to the relative poor play of Tiger Woods, coupled with the fact that Tiger has not played very often. At the start of 2010, Tiger had about 14.4 points, while Westwood had about 6.5 points. While Tiger has lost a whopping 6 points, Westwood has gained just over 1.7 points. Westwood is mathematically in the top spot in the rankings not because he is killing it out there, but because Tiger Woods has stunk it up most of the year. Westwood needs to prove that he can go out and grab it, and he has yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion and Your Thoughts?<\/strong><br \/>\nLee Westwood might be the mathematical leader of the Official World Golf Rankings, but his reign won&#8217;t last. Lee has stiff competition from the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Martin Kaymer, Steve Stricker, and Jim Furyk. Like the NFL team that loses its last few games yet still makes the playoffs, Westwood has &#8220;backed&#8221; into to the top spot thanks to the poor play of his competitors. While Lee may be consistent, to gain long term control of the top spot one needs to win and win often, something Lee has never done. With many of the world&#8217;s greatest players hot on his heels, Westwood will likely not hold onto his number one ranking for very long.<\/p>\n<p>So where do you stand? Will Lee Westwood last? Will Phil finally break through to achieve a career-long goal of his? Or will Tiger take it back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Westwood might be on top of world right now, but his reign as golf&#8217;s top player could be short lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_topics","category-trap_five"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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