Only a winning Rory McIlroy can stop Luke Donald triumphing in the Race to Dubai and taking home the European Tour crown for 2011.
And that's only if Donald obliges and finishes lower than ninth in this week's season-closing Dubai World Championship.
And Lee Westwood, the winner of both titles in 2009, knows it.
Ping G20 4-PW, GW Iron Set with Steel Shafts-Red Dot But don't for one second think that the stocky Englishman from Worksop will be in a negative frame of mind when he tees it up on Thursday at Dubai's swanky Jumeirah Golf Estate's Earth Course.
To the contrary, he'll bring a whole bunch of reasons to the course to make him look forward to winning
Ping G20 4-PW, GW Iron Set with Steel Shafts-Red Dot that is sky high in World Ranking points, not the least of them being the outstanding form that enabled him to shoot an astonishing course record 62 at Sun City's ultra-long Gary Player Country Club last week on his way to his second successive victory in the
Ping G20 4-PW, GW Iron Set with Steel Shafts-Red Dot Golf Challenge.
The figure 62 in itself is no longer exceptional in an age when many pros are driving the ball well over 300 yards, but in his case it certainly was because it was brilliantly crafted on a day when the best score his pursuers could mount was a 4-under 68 by Charl Schwartzel and a 3-under and a couple of 2-unders by some of the other front runners.
Ping G20 4-PW, GW Iron Set with Steel Shafts-Red Dot With his confidence high as a result and sitting as he is at No 3 in the World Rankings and in 5th place in the Race to Dubai, Westwood will have every reason to be optimistic about winning the actual Dubai World Championship.
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