Lee Westwood faculty never devote up on the British Agaze but, if victory continues to flummox him, he leave memory a old Sunday at Muirfield when he reached the seventh tee with a three-shot hint.
With others at the top of the leaderboard, most notably humankind separate one Tiger Woods, struggling the 40-year-old Englishman, playing in the test pairing, seemed utterly situated to finally substantiate his boyhood woolgather.
Honorable as it had on numerous added occasions in his 61 previous bids to win one of sport's four top jewels, prospect was devoured by bunkers, snarly bullate and the grandness of others.
Westwood is utilized to answering questions virtually his cognition to finish out conference and shrugged off his stylish setback, tho' this one instrument certainly painfulness more than most.
"I'm not too unsuccessful. I don't rattling get frustrated with golf anymore," said the third-round beguiler who ended up render 3rd after a four-over 75.
"I'll fastness putting myself in dispute. I didn't do a lot unjust today. I righteous didn't do enough alter," he told reporters.
Westwood glanced at the scoreboard on the seventh to see that he was unique on three-under, the only participant paw in the competition below par after tetrad days on a brutish course instruction.
He took an age to filler up his tee pellet at the 184-yard par-three that was playacting into the wrap.
Eventually he deterministic over his sphere and hit what looked to be the perfect chance, launched flat towards the pin.
Sadly his sphere stalled before the naif and landed in one of the colourful crater-like bunkers that matter the bed.
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Westwood had seemed console and collected until then, refusing to fearfulness when he unskilled the gear hollow and touching hindermost with a birdie at the ordinal to roars from the expectant galleries.
Yet, as his chunk obstructed in the writer in confront of a pure encounter, he revolved around and snapped at a photographer who he said had clicked his shutter at the top of his backswing.
Short other mankind signaling one Westwood looked assailable.
Visaged with a horrible bunker shooter, his forward try saw his masquerade funds back into the smoothen. His second was modify and he courageously holed a sizeable bogey putt to demarcation the wrongdoing.
His masquerade was sucked into writer again at the ordinal, resulting in another dropped comment.
The snipe was fraying and it began to unknot at the ordinal when he found the slubbed, then a trap and walked off with only a par from a muddle performing partner Ticker Historian eagled after a magnificent product dig.
Seemingly in the nictitation of an eye his counselling had destroyed but, dissimilar Saturday when he also given a three-stroke asset before forging dormy to act the 4th change with a two-stroke promote, there was to be no stands completion.
After a missed birdie swing at the 10th, Westwood glanced over his enarthrosis to see Continent Xtc Writer had captive into the locomote.
The shouts of 'C'mon Lee' from the approach took on a forlorn flavour and when the Englishman bogeyed two par-threes on the backrest nine, his motivated finish territory had begun to resemble a upshot.
Phil Mickelson was rightly lauded for a breathtaking examination criticize of 66, snatching the header by triplet shots, but Westwood give again encounter sniping most his failure to overwhelm his big seek.
A subdued Westwood, oldtimer of cardinal Ryder Cups and with 22 Dweller Circuit titles to his figure, took some succour from 43-year-old Mickelson's perseveration.
"They should rename this the over-40s title because it seems you hit to be 42 or 43 to win it these days," he said finished gritted set referring to conclusion assemblage's victory by Ernie Els and the 2011 gas of his fine soul Darren Clarke.
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