Lee Westwood Reflects: The Truth About Last Week’s Open at Portrush

Lee Westwood opens up in this exclusive reflection on The Open at Royal Portrush, sharing heartfelt insight into what made last week so special—and so emotional. From the roar of the crowd to the weight of history, Westwood gives an honest, behind-the-scenes look at his performance, mindset, and what it all meant to him.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or just discovering one of Europe’s most iconic golfers, this is a must-watch.

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Uh Lee, hi. Uh just just on last week, what how do you reflect back on on your performance there? How proud were you of what what you delivered? Yeah, I mean, you know what, a couple of weeks before the uh the Open Championship qualifying, I I was thinking of not even playing. So, you know, in everything you weigh things up and uh you know, I decided that, you know, there were more positives to try and qualify than than negatives. Um, you know, I love Port Rush. It’s my favorite links golf course to play. I love the Open Championship. I didn’t qualify the previous two years for various reasons, and I thought I’d give it a crack this year and, you know, came through the qualifying and won the qualifying. So, really, you know, I was on to a winner before I even teed a ball up in in anger at uh at Port Rush. Um, you know, just enjoying the atmosphere and going out there and, you know, you at the age of 52, you don’t know how many open championships you you’ve got left. So, you know, just trying to enjoy playing in front of what I think is the best fans in the world at the Open Championship and, you know, enjoying that walk coming up the 18th green and, you know, maybe making a few birdies, hopefully making more birdies than than bogeies. So, uh, yeah, it was nice to finish under par and being in there for, you know, a little while. And I made a few mistakes on the last day, made a triple on on eight, which really sort of like put me out of um, you know, I was trying to have small goals as the week went on. on them when I got into a decent position on Saturday. Try and have a goal of maybe getting in the top 10 and being being back for next year. But, you know, at the end of the day, I had a fantastic week. Really enjoyed it. And I might try and qualify next year for Burdale cuz, you know, I love Burkedale as well. So, uh um yeah, it was a it was a really positive week and I a lot a lot of good shots and hopefully I’ll carry some of that form into this week. Just one last one. Yeah, Lee, to carry on the the qualifying, you know, from afar, I’m watching you through social media and it seemed like a good group of people were out following you uh during qualifying. Does that like warm your heart when or does it make you feel like some sort of respect of like the the local town came out to really kind of root you on more than anyone else in qualifying? Yeah, I guess I had like 200 250 people walking around and five dogs. Um, and that’s the great thing about it, you know, like the US Open and the Open Championship, they have a qualification process. So, literally anybody can go and try and qualify and play in those tournaments. Now, the other two majors don’t. So, they’re the ones that may really benefit from Liv being included back into the World Golf rankings. But, you know, I’ve played for 33 years in front of the people that walked around in the open qualifying and, you know, they’ve seen me grow up and they’ve seen my career um move forward and they’ve seen the highs and seen the lows and they like to come out and watch the golf firsthand and that, you know, they get that opportunity at the Open Championship qualifying to come and walk behind and get close to the action, right? So, you know, it’s nice to it I I it’s the first time in 30 years I’ve tried to qualify and tried to qualify for an open championship and 1995 was the last time and in a perverse kind of way. I really enjoyed, you know, the uh the qualification process and playing with the younger kids and, you know, I was playing with a young amateur from Scotland, u Connor Graham, um who’s a who’s a great young prospect. He’s got a lot of game and he’s at college in the States and it’s nice to kind of watch those people come on and you know that that was one another great thing for me about playing in the open championship. you know, in the practice rounds, I played with some good young amateurs as well who’ve got a lot of game and clearly because they’ve qualified for the Open, they they’re going to some sometime down the road be tour players or something like that. So, um you know, at my age, it’s nice to go out and and watch the young crop come through, but also have that little bit of needle where you’re trying to beat them and you know, just put them in their place. So, it’s uh it it it was good fun actually. I really enjoyed the open championship and the qualifi qualification process this year. Yeah.