Westwood has enjoyed six top-three finishes in his last 13 majors Lee Westwood says he is in prime condition to break his major championship duck at this week's Open at Royal St George's.The 38-year-old Englishman, deposed as world number one by Luke Donald in May, has posted six top-three finishes in his last 13 major tournaments.
And despite having failed so far to win one, Westwood is in confident mood.
"My form is right where I'd like it to be [and] it would mean everything, really, to win the Open," he said.
"I've been playing well just recently and had a good stretch of results. The form is pretty good, I'm happy with all aspects of my game."
Westwood, who has fond memories of Royal St George's having won there as an amateur in 1992, is regarded as one of the favourites for the tournament, despite finishing in a lowly 14th position at last week's traditional Open warm-up the Scottish Open.
And he does not subscribe to the notion that he is getting too old to break his major jinx.
The last major tournament, the US Open, was won by Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy at the age of 22 - 16 years Westwood's junior.
But the Worksop golfer insisted: "I think it depends how fit you keep yourself and how mentally up for it you are.
Woods left 'vacuum' in US golf - Watson"You've got to want it still. I think that's the main thing."
And Westwood is hoping the Links course will play to his strengths over the weekend, saying: "I like the course. Strategically it's a good golf course. You have to plan your way around it. It's not always driver off every tee, which is quite nice.
"We don't play [Links courses] a lot now, maybe three times a year. [But] that is more than, say, American golfers or people playing on the PGA Tour would play it. They probably only play it once.
"Certainly growing up I played a lot of links golf. A lot of the boys' championships and English amateurs we played and our winter nationals we played on Links golf courses.
"If you're brought up on that style of golf course it stays with you, the knack of playing it."
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