Golf Central

Aha! Here's the classic clash of raw youth versus veteran experience! ...: I was just going to say it's a classic clash of rich golfers enjoying another big payday in a beautiful place like southern Spain, but maybe I'm jaded ...
Look can we just concentrate on the golf please?: OK, if you want to go with your boring old saw about the clash of youth versus experience, I'm game. Sounds easy enough to me. Anyway, Danny Willett isn't rich. He's an amateur.
Thanks for patronising me. Tell me about the grizzled veteran then ...: Well, I'm not sure I'd call Lee Westwood a grizzled veteran to his face. Have you seen the kind of shape that big fella is in these days? But yes, on the one hand you've got big Lee, leading by one stroke after a 7-under 65, with - as he says - "one eye on the Masters".
How can you hit the golf ball with one eye on the Masters?: Not sure, but it will probably find it's way into one of those confusing golf tips you find in all the glossy mags.
I can see it now. "Keep your head down ...": Right. And "Keep one eye on the Masters ..."
... "And I guarantee this will lower your golf scores" ... Right. Tell me about this Danny Willett kid then ...: Well, he's a 20-year-old from Sheffield, making his Euro Tour debut, and he's the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world. So if Willett keeps playing like this he'll soon be the one dishing out the tips.
Does he have a chance?: It has happened before. Amateurs win occasionally on the PGA Tour, more so on the European. The Spanish wonderkid Pablo Martin did it last year in Portugal, and now he's a 20-year-pro with a full exemption.
Is Willett really that good?: You've got to be to be No. 1 in the world at anything. He's 6-under, tied with Norwegian Jan-Are Laresen, after a round that featured a couple of nifty eagles. Willett eagled the first hole which settled his nerves and away he went.
He'd better hope he eagles the first hole every day then ... Hey, I've got a joke for you.: Fire away.
What do you call it when Jan-Are Larsen hits his driver?: What?
Norwegian wood! ...: Oh God, I think I need another week off ...