Lee Westwood

Today is the 35th birthday of golfer Lee Westwood, currently the leading Englishman in the European PGA Order of Merit, and lying 20th in the Official World Golf Rankings. Lee was born on 24th April 1973 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and began playing golf at the age of 13. Just four years later he had won his first amateur event, The Peter McEvoy Trophy, and he turned professional after winning the British Youth Championship in 1993. His first professional title came in 1996 when winning the Volvo Scandinavian Masters, and to date he has won 18 events on the European Tour. A regular member of the Ryder Cup team, he is a close friend of fellow golfer Darren Clarke, with whom he co-owns a private jet, and they were together when I took this photograph of Lee Westwood on 3rd May 2005 before Liverpool's Champions League semi-final victory over Chelsea at Anfield