Golf: Westwood riding high

Lee Westwood with a winner trophy during the Ballantine's Championship. Photo / AP

Lee Westwood returned to Europe after a two-week Asian excursion yesterday with two more golf titles in the bag, an extra $660,000 in the bank and the feeling that he is playing like a world number one.

The 38-year-old, the subject of sniping from the United States when he was elevated to the top of the world rankings after winning last week's Indonesian Masters, bagged the European Tour-sanctioned Ballantine's Championship by a stroke on Sunday.