Lee Westwood wants you to know he is just a little lad from Worksop (with a net worth of $40 million)
Lee Westwood has joined Phil Mickelson in taking the Saudi riyal to join their new breakaway tour, which starts next month.
Westwood has always ducked questions about his new paymasters’ human rights record by trotting out his twee catchphrase, “I’m just a lad from Worksop who plays golf for a living”.
Although he did at least have the decency to acknowledge this week, “This is my job. I do this for money.”
He’ll fit right in alongside Mickelson, whose lust for cash is well known.
A golf magazine once asked pros in the clubhouse how much they had in their wallet.
Most of them had to check, digging out a couple of small, crumpled notes before encouraging the interviewer to “ask Phil”.
When they finally approached Mickelson, he replied, without skipping a beat, “I’ve got $6,500 in $100s and $1,600 in $20s”.
