Word is filtering out of Europe that Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy, two of the finest golfers on the planet -- whether they qualify as "better" than Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson is, frankly, irrelevant here -- will be playing in Europe for more, or even most, of 2011.
Westwood is only a second-place finish from taking over the No. 1 spot in the world from Woods. (Yeah, yeah, never-won-a-major, blah blah -- save it.) But what's more significant than that is that he's actively turning his back on the PGA Tour to play in Europe. Westwood has had his problems with the PGA Tour before, and he's leaving no doubt about his intentions now.
"I don't want to be dictated to by having to go to America to play FedEx Cup when it doesn't really mean that much to me," he said, via EuropeanTour.com. "I think they
