‘It’s difficult’…Lee Westwood shares what’s so hard about golf now he’s 50

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Lee Westwood has been speaking about life on the LIV Tour and golf in general and shared some insight into how life is an elder statesman.

Westwood, now 50, is part of the Majesticks golf team on the LIV Tour alongside Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Sam Horsfield.

Winner of more than 40 professional events in his career, ‘Westy’ never quite made the ultimate jump to winning a major but has still had a hugely successful career.

Now over in LIV and getting a nice payday late in his career, Westwood has been speaking about the adjustment to life as an older golfer.

And speaking on the Majesticks official YouTube show, Westwood shared what he now finds hard about playing the game at 50.

Lee Westwood shares what’s so hard about life as a golfer at 50

Speaking about the issues he now faces in his later years as a pro, Westwood admitted the mental side of the game is the toughest to keep a grip on.

“Having the mental sharpness and at 42 to want to keep going out there and working at it is the toughest part as you get older when you’ve been doing something kind of relentlessly for 35 years, it’s difficult to retain the same enthusiasm so that’s a challenge in itself. When you get to 50 years of age time is a Sportsman’s or athletes biggest problem there’s no overcoming it it doesn’t even creep up on you it it smacks you right in the face,” Westwood said.

Westwood’s team finished 11th from 12 teams in the 2023 season and he’ll be hoping to do so much better this time around.

The experienced Worksop native knows how to win and he’ll be hoping to pass that experience onto the younger player in his team in Horsfield.

Westwood is one of Europe’s most decorated golfers, having represented Europe ten times in the Ryder Cup, while being one of the only players to win a tournament in four different decades.